Apparently if you dream of buttercups you could be recalling memories of childhood and wishing for a return to a time where things were simpler and the pace was slower. I am certainly longing to see the Bermuda Buttercups again. I shouldn’t really like them as they were introduced to the Algarve from South Africa in the 19th century, and have since become a problematic invasive species. They are also not even proper buttercups, they are in fact of the oxalidaceae (wood sorrel) family. However on their first appearance every year their bright yellow faces cheer me up.

Yes, the flowers in my header and the flower in my square are both Bermuda Buttercups. They call the square version doubles, but they are really more like quadruples (hee hee notice my second up word there!). The doubles have to be searched for, and I think are really lovely. When we first came across them though took us ages to figure that they were the same plant as the more common singles.

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    1. Isn’t it great how we all have our objects which cheer us up or make us feel the next season is almost here 🙂

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    1. ah if you saw how the singles dominate the landscape and have a stranglehold on the native plant life you might change your mind!! Like you though i do generally go for the singles – I like simplicity 🙂

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    2. PS I have been online most of the day doing podcast stuff and festival behind the scenes. So way way behind on visiting everyone, hopefully though I will be up on your rooftop soon

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      1. No worries, sweetheart! Running a daily challenge is a monster. I’ve been pretty busy too, and have just come back online. The welcome will be just as warm when you get here 🙂 🙂

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    2. PS Sorry I have not visited your cupola yet today. I am way way behind on visiting everyone again – spent most of the day online sorting out my voluntary work. Hope though to be peering up at your lovely green house cupola very soon

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    1. You are so right 🙂

      PS apologies I have not visited your post yet today. I am way way behind on visiting everyone again – spent most of the day online sorting out my voluntary work. Hope though to be joining you very soon

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      1. Right now my yard is covered with oxalis. Nothing really stop them. I covered part of the yard with black garden plastic and they push it up and keep growing 😱
        Of course we’ll all in it together.

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