It's easy to miss what's very close to home, on your doorstep in fact, and travel long distances to see spring flowers. Lawns Park is a case in point, easily reached from various parts of Swindon, it's a lovely place to visit, whether in early spring when the snowdrops and crocuses are blooming, later on when there are daffs, or for the Dawn Chorus at the start of the Swindon Festival of Literature, or for autumn colour later on.
Lawns is such a fabulous asset, easily accessible for lots of people. The temptation is to call it The Lawns as the Ordnance Survey do, I'm not sure if Lawns Park is the definitive name either, maybe it's just Lawn.
Anyway, the snowdrops and crocuses are fantastic there at the moment, it's the carpets of crocuses around the trees that look so fantastic, there's a pale mauve hue that is hard to capture with a camera:
Maybe you can see the colour there?
And below I tried again with more trees in the picture.
And here's a close up:
I've done the same with the snowdrops, taken a general view of them and then tried to get a close up
I also spotted these two crocuses, or is it croci, on the corner of Newport Street and Devizes Road at the base of a wall, were they planted or have they somehow self seeded there?
Aren't they amazing?
Lawns is such a fabulous asset, easily accessible for lots of people. The temptation is to call it The Lawns as the Ordnance Survey do, I'm not sure if Lawns Park is the definitive name either, maybe it's just Lawn.
Anyway, the snowdrops and crocuses are fantastic there at the moment, it's the carpets of crocuses around the trees that look so fantastic, there's a pale mauve hue that is hard to capture with a camera:
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