Roadside Beauty

                                                                                                                                                                    This display can be seen every year apast Tower Hill Cottages.

Flowers' Name: Lesser Celandine

Scientific Name: Ficaria verna ssp verna

Irish Name: Grán arcáin

Family Group: Ranunculaceae

The Lesser Celandines have eight petals, unlike other somewhat similar flowers which have less. 

'There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine,

That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain;

And, at the first moment that the sun may shine,

Bright as the sun itself, 'tis out again!'

From The Small Celandine      by William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

I had the pleasure of seeing places associated with Wordsworth a few years ago in the English Lake District.