In a Sicilian spring flowers adorn the island. And this spring they were lovely - on Easter’s mournful Good Friday in Polizzi Generosa in April, wandering the streets of Polizzi, driving the mountain roads of the Madonie, and travelling the interior roads and along the Ionian Sea.

Polizzi Generosa -an unknown pink beauty

Drops of white wisteria, Casa Cuseni, Taormina, near the Ionian Sea

Irises along a backstreet, Polizzi Generosa

Wild sweet peas in the midst of spontaneous roadside flowers near Locati

Tangled roadside sweet peas, sulla, yellow daisies near Locati

Roses (and other lovely pink flowers) in the terrace garden, The Sicilian House, Polizzi Generosa

Pinks, reds, yellows, purples and white

Wildflowers, pots of pinks and reds along village streets and balconies and overgrown backstreet gardens, long full drops of purple wisteria along the wall of a country house in the Madonie Mountains, plus more wisteria drops near the Ionian Sea in the rambling garden at Casa Cuseni.

Heaps of fields, green from winter rains dotted with perfect flowers – purple velvet wild sweet peas, tall yellow ferula and poppies. And the deep, deep pink red of sulla, the flower of a legume used for cattle feed in the interior.

Wildflowers, castle ruins Polizzi Generosa

Street balcony, Polizzi Generosa - geraniums along the top rail

Casa Cuseni, Taormina -irises, and the last of the east coast citrus

Sulla, near Castellana Sicula in the Madonie

Wisteria drops along the Scillato Road in the Madonie

The Grieving Madonna, lillies and nasturtiums by the sea

Golden oranges and yellows of the sweet nasturtium against lava rock at Santa Maria della Scala, tucked down by the Ionian Sea. And white lilies, at the base of Polizzi’s grief stricken and ethereal Madonna on Good Friday.