Snowdrops North Fife

Galanthus nivalis (common snowdrop)

The common snowdrop is one of the most popular of all cultivated bulbous plants, and its flowering is traditionally seen to herald the end of winter. This is a show by the wayside at Fliskmillan.

Habitat: Mostly deciduous woodland, but occasionally coniferous woodland. Also in meadows, pasture, amongst scrub, near rivers and on stony slopes, particularly on calcareous soils.

 

Galanthus nivalis is the best-known and most widespread representative of the genus Galanthus. It is native to a large area of Europe, stretching from the Pyrenees in the west, through France and Germany to Poland in the north, Italy, Northern Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and European Turkey. It has been introduced and is widely naturalised elsewhere. Although it is often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it was probably introduced around the early sixteenth century and is currently not a protected species in the UK.

There are places in Fife where snowdrops are in massive profusion. Cambo Estate offer a Snowdrop festival.. Also during one can visit at night.

Two weeks later looking more snow like.

Sheep North Fife

Sheep at Fliskmillan, today each time I ventured out of my home they came running, what you can't see is the noise of their bleating, yearning and wanting fed. A good job they're well fleeced in the weather we have at the moment.

Tayview Sky Newburgh North Fife Feb 23rd 2013

Tayview Sky Newburgh North Fife Feb 23rd 2013. At last the days are drawing out and light is returning. Today at evening time the light had a wonderful quality, ever changing of course, cloudy to the West but less so to the East.

Looking West from Newburgh.

 

 Looking North  to a shaft of bright sunlight illuminatig the reedbeds surrounding Mugdrum Island.

 A few minutes later the light is even more dramatic.

Looking East to Dundee bathed in a warm glow.

 

 Almost full Moon

Dundee from BlackEarnside.

 

River Tay from Fliskmillan. This and the preceeding photographs span about 15 mins, it later gave up incredible scarlet vistas, too late I was having my tea.