Not as we know it..

Day 244 #365DaysWild

The month has been very wet, living up to its country name of ‘February fill-dyke’. The roads were awash again today with standing water in the fields and ditches brimming.

Winter aconites (eranthus hyemalus) have finished unseasonably early, petals fading and lost and seed pods already forming. One month early. They’re members of the ranunculus (buttercup) family and so love moist ground. They must be in heaven this year.

Mysteriously, among the faded hyemalus aconites, the hawk-eyed may spot single plant flowering. An aconite Jim, but not as we know it..

We think eranthus cilicia. Later flowering. Smaller. With more delicate fringing . Quite pretty.

We must have introduced this as a seed at sometime - can’t think of another explanation.

May move this little loner to another part of the garden to set up an eranthus cilicia colony.