Postal stamp: flowers - self-adhesive - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2018 - 20 Euro Cent

Very British: The Atlantic bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) is considered the national flower of England. And is also a highlight among the spring flowering. If you visit the traditional Hampton Court Palace Gardens, the royal gardens in southwest London in the month of May, you will experience its "Blue Wonder". Then "The Wilderness", a hedged area with lush meadows under tall deciduous trees, turns into a single carpet of blue "bluebells". The range of the charming-graceful bluebell originally extended on the European west coast from Portugal to Scotland. In Germany, the 15 to 40 centimeters large onion flower from the family of asparagus plants was also native to garden shrubs. Characteristic is the racemose inflorescence. On the stalk are six to twelve pedunculated flowers. They are narrow bell-shaped and all nod to one side. The blue-violet, in exceptional cases also white or reddish bloom cover has at the lower end bent back corners. Self-adhesive, set of 10.