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| 2015: Flora and Fauna of Alderney (Design - Petula Stone) |
The tiny island of Alderney (2000 acres) packs a lot into a small space consisting of woodland, scrub, wetlands grassland, heath and of course sandy beaches. They issued this as both mini sheet and stamps but how could I resist the famous Alderney blonde hedgehog featuring twice on the mini sheet with bluebells and buttercups. Hedgehogs are not native to the islands and it is thought they were brought to the island as pets and either escaped or were set free in the 1960s. Because of the small number they are not genetically diverse and it appears that two had the genetic variation for blonde spines (a rare trait) and today 60% of the approx 600 hedgehogs are blonde.
The flora on the stamps are the aromatic Alderney Sea Lavender only found on Alderney and Jersey in the British Isles, Dwarf Thistle and the Spotted rock rose which is the county flower.
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| 2010: Flowers - Pansies (Design - A Christensen) |
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| 2010 (self adhesives): Flowers (Design - N Tamas) |
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| 2006: Flowers |
Hibiscus are best planted in the spring and we are now in meteorological spring however there has been snow this week! Our ancestors were more wise and knew Spring started with the Vernal Equinox, this year the 19th March
Sunday Stamp's theme this week - Flowers - blooming at See It On a Postcard
6 comments:
Oh I love the Alderney set! Such beautiful art.
Love the flora and fauna sheet, and the Swedish poppies really stand out - very striking.
They are all beautiful but the first set is absolutely gorgeous!
I hadn't heard of blonde hedgehogs, but they look adorable, especially sitting amongst the flowers! Pansies always make me think of my mother who loved them, always referring to their "sunny faces".
Oh, those first are just adorable! I like violas, but not pansies. Pansies just are so big and tend to flop, so I plant the little ones. I love the faces on both though.
The Alderney sheet seems perfect for Easter. Those little animals are lovely!
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