Bring flowers of the rarest, bring blossoms the fairest

St Patrick's Cabbage, saxifrage spatularis, a Lusitanian species not present in Britain but cultivated in gardens there and called London Pride. Enjoyed by pollinators, as seen here.

It's mid-May with flowers everywhere, and battles of the flowers, enacted in our own back garden where Triquetros garlic, that looks like white bluebells but smells like a French restaurant, is crowding out the lovely, native, deep-blue bluebells.

Happily, so far, these haven’t also had to cope with the Spanish bluebell — campanilla — a pretty hyacinth itself, but somehow without the mystique of the pendulous, almost-in-mourning, indigent of the bluebell woods of romance.