Crocusses

The sun was up cheerily; the fresh pleasant green of spring had stolen, more like a tinted atmosphere, than in the guise of foliage, over tree and bush; field flowers and crocusses peeped from under the mossy turf.

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In the springtime, when the deep snow has given away, crocusses and snowdrops bloom, but there is nobody there to admire their beauty.

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The drifts of flowering snowdrops might have been matched elsewhere in Cardiff, but it is doubtful if the crocusses were, this early. Orange ones were at prime on a grassy slope and pale mauve ‘species’ crocusses, usually the first to appear, were in full spate among the slender leaf tufts.

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