Cowslips are one of my favourites in the garden. They’re happily perennial here and turn up reliably year after year. One year I moved a bunch of them to get them more concentrated – instead of one here and one there, I now have a small cowslip meadow. In fact I even have three cowslip meadows, but only one of them is right next to the deck and nicely visible from the house.

I’ve been waiting for them to spread by seed. I wait with mowing the grass in that area until they’re all done flowering. But it doesn’t seem to be happening much. The clumps are slowly getting bigger, though.

In most clumps, some of the plants have much shorter stems. I wonder if it’s the babies of the clump, old enough to flower but not yet old enough to grow to full size.