I mentioned a few weeks ago that in Orkney each month of the year has its own flower.
Obviously, I do know that flowers are seasonal; you won’t see forsythia in bloom in October back home, and the flowers on the caryopteris in my garden won’t be showing up until August. But the sheer profusion of flowers in Orkney – gardens, ditches, fields, window boxes, parks, even the cracks in the corners of parking lots are just jammed full – means each new bloom is so, just so . . there.
May is bluebells – the town is awash and they look lovely.