Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Melancholy Thistle


I was very pleased to discover as I flicked through my book of British Wildflowers that there is a thistle called the Melancholy Thistle...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love plant names---there's so much heart in them. I am just imagining one melancholy thistle (or perhaps some melancholy botanist discovering and naming a new thistle).

Caitlin Hinshelwood said...

this here is one of the reasons we are friends - maybe i should start growing one to join my heartbreak section in the garden