A gallery of flowers that bloom around Easter

Published by Conor Mulvihill on March 22, 2016March 22, 2016

[cs_section id=”” class=” ” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 45px 0px; ” visibility=”” parallax=”false”][cs_row id=”” class=” ” style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” visibility=”” inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=””][cs_column id=”” class=”” style=”padding: 0px; ” bg_color=”” fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][cs_text id=”” class=”” style=”” text_align=””]Flowers blooming are the perfect representation of the Easter season, a period known for renewal. This is a gallery that presents a variety of native Irish flowers that bloom around Easter. A major source for the information in this article came from the Wildflowers of Ireland website. [/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”” class=” ” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 45px 0px; ” visibility=”” parallax=”false”][cs_row id=”” class=” ” style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” visibility=”” inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=””][cs_column id=”” class=”” style=”padding: 0px; ” bg_color=”” fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_slider animation=”slide” slide_time=”7000″ slide_speed=”1000″ slideshow=”false” random=”false” control_nav=”false” prev_next_nav=”true” no_container=”false” ][x_slide]

Broom

The bright yellow 25mm long flowers are sometimes marked with red. After pollination the stamens protrude from between the upper part of the flower and the keel, which is the lower part.[/x_slide][x_slide]

Greater Periwinkle

This beautifully designed flower is worth stopping to look at closely. The violet-blue petals are fused together toward the centre of the flower, the corolla continuing into a short tube. The dark evergreen, shiny leaves are ovate and stalked with hairy edges.[/x_slide][x_slide]

Primrose

The Latin name translates as ‘First flower’ and indeed this little plant even shows its head before the end of the old year in sheltered places (see below). Our little ‘Sabhaircín’ generally flowers from April to May when its pale yellow 2-3cm flowers with their deep yellow centres decorate grassy banks, woodlands and roadsides. Each flower has its own leafless stalk.[/x_slide][x_slide]

Yew

Best known for its fruit , it is less well-known for its very small green-yellow flowers. The male and female flowers grow on separate trees, the male flowers bearing yellow pollen which they shed in February and March. The ‘flower’ in the picture below is a female . The fruit is a fleshy red cup-shaped berry which contains one extremely poisonous seed. [/x_slide][x_slide]

Snowdrop

A low-growing perennial which is found growing beside streams, on roadsides and in damp woods, this plant is a garden escape which has naturalised in the eastern side of the country. The familiar little flowers have three white outer ‘petals‘ (15-25mm long) – in reality these are sepals – and three white inner petals, each of these having a cleft with a green patch around it.[/x_slide][x_slide]