Pin-eye

For our Wednesday garden centre visit we needed to go to Houghton Hall. Before Christmas we had bought a dining table in their sale for the holiday lodge to suit our soon-to-be-refurbished kitchen better.

We had intended bringing the lodge table home and dispensing with our huge mahogany Victorian one, however it was going to be too big for our room. SO, if we could get another small one, we would have it for ourselves.  We were in luck! Not only did they have one left in store, it was a couple of hundred pounds cheaper as they had further reduced the price.

While we were there I took shots of this pin-eyed primrose and looking at my shots, I also had a thrum-eyed one. The pin-eyed ones have the female part above the pollen, the male part, to avoid self pollination. On the thrum-eyed one, in Extras, the pollen on the anthers can be seen above the petals.