About a month before Easter the Norwegians seem to go bonkers for the color yellow. In all the stores you will find displays of yellow candles,yellow napkins,and of course,the yellow daffodils. It's not a wimpy pastel yellow either. It's a bold,solid,deep yellow. The kind of yellow that makes you smile even after months of grey sunless days. Van Gogh would love this yellow. Apparently Mother Nature likes to decorate with yellow in the Spring also. All the wildflowers are yellow at this time of year.
Buttercups or Smørblomst.
Our first flowers of Spring,the Coltsfoot,or Hestehov.
Escaped Daffodils or Påskelilje.
Often slandered and maligned, the Dandelion,or Løvetann,is one of my personal favorites.
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Fun to see familiar flowers , here they are just beginning to emerge.
ReplyDeleteI ve often thought of how giving a plant a dandelion is, finch and other birds love their seeds, we can use as a spring tonic, and useful dye, and bitter leaves, and hmm root for a drink, she just didn't learn to limit her expansion so man and woman got mad at the generosity ....