The King's Meadow's Lilies

While King's Meadow (Kungsängen) might be a particulary nice surburb of Stockholm, it's actually not the origin of this little beauty's name - of which I wrote a few days back. Instead the name derives from an area in the outskirts of the city Uppsala. There you can find a whole vast field brimming with wild fritillarias. Blooming in May-June. Oh it must truly be a sight for sore eyes...

Last weekend we took the toy car and went looking for this field. The road map seemed easy enough to follow - never mind soMeone's unbending overconfidence in GPS-systems, myself I often very much prefer having a good old road map to read and interpret. And let's just say, that once again, one good old read proved to be a wise choice...

But we actually had to look twice to discover we'd come to the right place. I'd imagine it would be a field of bright red/white lilies, instead they were really very hard to distinguish at first. And sadly I believe they were singing the last verse for this season already. There was just no way of taking those much anticipated pictures of a field brimming with these lilies in full bloom...

But still, perhaps these pictures might, just might, give you an idea of what the field must look like when they are/were in full bloom... I so very definitely have a date with a lily field next spring! Until then I've heard rumours about a similar field of fritillarias in the part just north of Stockholm called Roslagen. With a bit of luck one might, just might, be able to catch those wee ones in full bloom there instead. Now wouldn't that be lovely, just lovely...