Romsey Abbey Flowers

At sunrise in mid summer, the early morning light colours the North side of the Abbey with a pink tinge (at around 6 - 6:30 am). The shadows in the flowers are dark, making the the colour of the flowers seem all the more vibrant.

Still at sunrise, but looking to the West the glow of the early sun lights up the vicarage and the old primary school.  Here I found the one clump of poppies in 2024!.

To see the North face of the Abbey in sunlight again, you have to wait until after 6pm (again around midsummer).  Catch it right and the sun is still on the flowers too.

In 2025 the flowers started with a few fragrant orange blooms, but these were quickly swamped by a sea of pink.  This is during the middle of the day, so the North face of the Abbey is in shade and so has a cooler shade.  There are still hints of pink in the masonry which ties in nicely with the flowers.

And after the pink had faded, the ox-eye daisies took over.  I found this one spot where the scene was entirely filled by the daisies.  This was early June.  There are still flowers to be seen after this, and there will be until the cool Autumn weather, but the dry hot Spring has made the daisies the last big show of flowers for 2025.

And the final painting - at least until there is another flush of flowers in 2026 - features the cornflowers that dominated one corner for a while in 2025, before the drought ended the display early.