These resilient flowers came across to Europe from South America back in the day, cousins of the Amaryllis flower, in boxes on a ship...
...that shipwrecked off the coast of Guernsey before its destination of the Netherlands...
...the boxes washed ashore and the bulbs took root about the coastline, establishing there...
...pretty good story and in that vein, instead of being named Imhofia( who the heck thought that one up???!!), they became 'nerines', after the mythological sea-nymphs, the 'nereids' of Greek Mythology...there now, much better :-)
what a relief!
No comments:
Post a Comment