Catalogue of Preferred Flowers

Here is a list of some flowers which I approve of, and commend to you.

 

Honeysuckle. Despite the fact that this plant is described as a shrub - how dare they? - it actually represents one of the pinnacles of God's creation and its fragrant flowers are the envy of Chanel No 5. I defy Mr Darwin and Professor Dawkins to see and sniff one of these things and then suggest who made them? It was God, Gentlemen! It must have been.

Field Scabious. The absolute King of the Teasels.

This stuff just flowers, year after year without anyone doing anything. Some patches of it grow beside the A39 near here and the council come and cut it down just when it's in its prime every summer but it fights back. The operative who has to cut it down must need counselling afterwards. Imagine having to destroy things like these.

 

 

Daisies. These are lowly but friendly little things. Note the satisfying Fibonacci sequence display in the arrangement of the disc florets (yellow bit).

LOOK at these. They are so delicate and pleasing that it is not possible that they could have come about by chance. God must have been WELL CHUFFED* when he had invented these.

  

These pictures are of Upright Hedge Parsley - Paragon of Flowers. 

Cow Parsley is another good one and its flowers peak at the official Best Time of the Year, i.e. the 1st 2 weeks of May (Copyright G-AHLK).

 

 

 

* "well chuffed" : a term used by the street urchins of West Somerset in the late 20th century, and meaning "very content".

Grasses in flower. Rewarding, though often disregarded.
Common Field Speedwell, Flax, Field Bindweed. More fine work, by God.

Clovers and vetch; these are peas. Peas rule.

Meadowsweet. A delightful word for a fragrant, pretty flower. I would have called our daughter Meadowsweet if I could have got away with it but it's too popular as a name for cows. Though I am fond of cows.




                

Harebells

Lady's Smock not Ladies Smock



 

 

 

Wild roses. They should not be called dog roses. The name is insufficiently pleasant. Juliet did not say a dog rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and with good reason. But they are lovely and so is rose hip syrup, if you can be bothered to make it.

Poppies

Wild Pansies

  

       
                                        

Hops. Well, obviously. You can make beer out of hops. Hurrah for beer. And sprays of hops look very nice festooned around the Public Bar.

I have included these because they have charming names: pellitory of the wall, enchanter's nightshade, hemp 
agrimony, restharrow, and tall ramping fumitory.
Though it may interest Juliet to know that "tall ramping fumitory"'s other name is Fumaria bastardii which certainly isn't charming in the least.