{"id":87443,"date":"2018-05-09T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-forget-me-nots-have-a-heart-of-gold\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T05:03:23","slug":"country-diary-forget-me-nots-have-a-heart-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-forget-me-nots-have-a-heart-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: forget-me-nots have a heart of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWenlock Edge, Shropshire: These delicate flowers are the colour of the far blue yonder, blue remembered hills, into the blue, the beyond, a spiritual eternity\u201cIs love so prone to change and rot\/ We are fain to rear forget-me-not\/ By measure in a garden plot?\u201d asked Christina Rossetti (A Bed of Forget-Me-Nots, 1856). The flowers of forget-me-not, Myosotis, may have been reared by measure in a garden plot here, before it was abandoned a hundred years ago and a wood of change, rot and indeed love took over. Water, creeping, pale, tufted, Jersey, wood, alpine, field, changing and early \u2026 forget-me-nots are species of Myosotis belonging to the borage family, famous for their blue flowers; the delicate pale blue of forget-me-not is unique. Some flowers on this plant growing along the path are a brilliant white, too. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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