Thank you so much to Ann Hacke 🕷🌱🇪🇺 #FBPA 🌻🇺🇦 for finding the source of the image from yesterday’s post for me! I will enjoy learning more about the artwork at La Galeria Vero-Dodat in Paris!

Such a beautiful print illustrating one of my favourite birds and their love of teasel seeds!

Colourful #flowers, Dahlias, Hydrangeas, and African marigolds photographed at Coton Manor in Northamptonshire this weekend. Wishing you all a very happy Monday evening! #DailyBotanicalBeauty #gardening

The wildflower Daucus carota is known as “Queen Anne’s Lace”. The name may reference St. Anne, “Queen of Heaven”, and patron saint of lacemakers. The tiny red flower at the centre of the inflorescence is said to represent a drop of blood from her pricked finger. #FairytaleTuesday

What a wonderful idea!

Thank you so much for ordering these cards from my website, Marlen. I hope you enjoy writing and sending them! 📮 venetiajane.co.uk

Rosa ‘Jaqueline du Pré’, named for the talented British cellist born 26th January 1945, who was forced to stop performing at the age of 28 having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She is regarded as one of the greatest cellists of all time. #RoseWednesday #music #gardening

Cleomes are known by the names ‘bee plant’, because bees love them, and ‘spider flower’, because the long stamens protruding from the flowers give them a “spidery” appearance. In the contemporary ‘language of flowers’, Cleomes convey the message “elope with me”. #FolkloreThursday

There’s no sign of any wet weather on the horizon this morning, but here’s a rain-splashed bee holding tightly onto an Echinacea flower, photographed a few days ago. #FlowersOnFriday #pollinators

Pilosella aurantiaca is a “hawkweed”; the Ancients believed hawks harvested juice from this plant to strengthen their eyesight. Other folk names are “Devil’s paint-brush”, and in England “Grimm the Collier”, inspired by the black, sooty hairs covering it. #folklore #wildflowers

A tale tells of three kittens who washed their mittens and left them to dry on a tree. Along came a mischievous fairy who glued them to the tree’s branches. If you visit a wood on a sunny March day, you can still see their mittens decorating the trees to this day! #FolkloreSunday

The Aster, or ‘starwort’, is a birth #flower of #September, named after the goddess Astraea who metamorphosed into the constellation #Virgo when she fled the Earth. It is said her tears fell from the heavens as she mourned mankind’s loss of innocence, and transformed into Asters.

I’ve always wanted to visit a sunflower farm, and here I am amongst lots of smiley faces (both of floral and human kind!) at Ha Ha Farm in Norfolk! 🌻🌻🌻#hahafarm

The golden ratio in sunflowers! So beautiful! blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/njol…

An old Breton superstition (from France’s Brittany region) says that if a maiden touches a marigold with her bare foot at sunrise, she will miraculously “understand the language of the birds”. Just remember to check for bees foraging amongst the #flowers though! #FairytaleTuesday

“The smallest creatures often hold the key to the grandest mysteries of our ecosystems." - Rachel Carson #NationalWildlifeDay #pollinators

The Morning Glory, Ipomoea tricolor, is another birth flower of September. In old England these flowers were called “life of man” because they are in bud in the morning, open by noon & wilt by evening. In the language of flowers they are an emblem of affection. #FolkloreThursday