Amelia's photos with the keyword: White

Today's Saturday Self Challenge is: Red and White.

Where baby oaks play in the breeze Among wood-sorrel and fringed fern, Through the green garments of the trees The quivering shafts of sunlight burn. Edith Nesbit.

The five petals are each deeply notched as to appear as ten petals. Flowers appear from April until June. When the seed cases ripen the seeds can be heard ‘popping’ as they are released, unless one is very deaf. ;-).

Loveliest of trees> Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. From A. E. Housman's book 'The Shropshire Lad'

The woodland floor is covered with Anemone nemorosa and lesser celandines. Next month or perhaps May, the bluebells will take over

A flower of cold beauty and a symbol of 'the wilderness and wetlands'. Also known as the 'bog star', it isn't actually a grass at all, belonging to an entirely different botanical class. It isn't a common flower, although possibly many people would miss it as it is so tiny.