Bavarian Gentians

When the sky is grey like today, I have to get my fix of blue from flowers. Actually, the title refers to a poem by D.H.Lawrence as I can't be sure that my gentians are actually Bavarian ones...

Here is the peom together with quite a good interpretation http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/1999/04/bavarian-gentians-d-h-lawrence.html