How To Use spring squill In A Sentence
- Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
- Meanwhile on land, the spring flowers were also showing in some splendour - these spring squill had formed dense mats on some rocky parts of the machair, while the burns were a mass of marsh marigolds in parts.
- Occasionally spring squill are found in grassy areas away from the coast.
- Lesser celandine and bulbous buttercup supply colour in spring, ragwort and carlile thistle in autumn, but the main burst of flowering is in May, when the varied pinks of a multitude of thrift cushions spreads upwards from the South and West and the north-western turf is starred with the blue of spring squills.
- Blue harebells and spring squill grew along the cliff path.
- In the springy short turf along the coast grow species including sea pink, spring squill, bird's foot trefoil, sea campion, scurvy grass and sheep's bit which also transform some stretches of cliff into colourful ` hanging gardens’.
- Along the coastal margin, the spring squill makes hazy blue carpets in early spring.
- Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill. Country diary: Shetland
- Blue harebells and spring squill grew along the cliff path.
- In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift.
