I had a walk around the paddock next to the house which has not had any sheep grazing on it for some years.  The sheep ate nearly everything, grasses and many of the flowers, but since they have left the flowers have thrived. 

Earlier in the year there were many primroses on a bank which have now died back. 

Now there are a few bluebells and if you look very closely you will just see the edge of a honey bee inside one of the bells.

Celendines always put on a bright show in the sun, although I don't want them in the garden as they will spread and I will never be able to remove them.

Ladies smock looking so delicate in pale lilac

and apple blossom with its early promise of fruit in the autumn

Cowslips - which remind me of the cowslip filled field at the entrance to a farm in Yorkshire which I visited many times as a child.  I called it cowslip farm as did my mother when she was a child living in the village.

I grew some cowslips from seed for the garden a few years ago and they have spread around the garden and, it appears, into the paddock. 

And the last of the Narcissus  I always look forward to these after all the yellow Narcissus have ceased flowering.  These have been planted by a previous owner of the paddock.

There will be many wild flowers to come and I always find it interesting to see what has appeared in the paddock once again now the sheep are not eating nearly everything.