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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.
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  • 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.
  • Blue is taken up by the spring squills, with their small, clear flowers surrounded by agitated leaves.
  • I love the tiny tete a tete daffodils and spring squills, grape hyacinths and species Irises, but so does Puppy.
  • The clifftop has spectacular displays of sea campion, thrift and spring squill.
  • There is a good display of common primrose on cliffsides and stream banks and of blue spring squill in coastal heaths at Corbiegoe, Dwarick, Dunnet and Duncansby Head.
  • The coastal cliffs and headlands form a natural rockery where primrose, roseroot, thrift, bladder campion, mountain avens, marram grass, violets and spring squills may be found.
  • In spring the island is carpeted in bluebells and spring squills.
  • 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
  • The first plants to appear with the melting snows include drifts of spring and trumpet gentians, Narcissus asturiensis and spring squill.

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