"Gardening makes my heart bloom" -- mum

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Monday 6 September 2010

In praise of the celandine

In 1802 William Wordsworth wrote this poem about his favourite flower.....

To the Small Celandine

Pansies, Lilies, Kingcups, Daisies,
Let them live upon their praises;
Long as there's a sun that sets
Primroses will have their glory;
Long as there are violets,
They will have a place in story:
There's a flower that shall be mine,
'Tis the little Celandine.

Celandine - the herald of early spring

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