Another of my favourite flowers is flushing with fresh blooms under the pear tree at the bottom of the garden this Spring - the humble
wallflower. They really are such a delicious flower in their modest, compact, unobtrustive form and seductive, spicy scent - I smile whenever I spy them out - and they manage to hang on tenaciously to what are seemingly the most precarious of spots to grow - quite literally in the cracks of walls. Ours have it good as they are in a flower border tended by Miss P and occasionally even receive a helping of hen-'enriched' compost.
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| The County Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1820 |
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Interestingly, the term '
wallflower' - which describes generally introverted personality types who still seek out social events and then choose how much to interact - was first used in the poem above in 1820.
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