The Peacock's Tales — wild flowers

Wildflower Meadows

July 16, 2021 • wild flowers

Sumer is icumen in,

Loude sing cuckoo!

Groweth seed and bloweth meed,

And springeth wode anew.

Sing cuckoo!

I’ve always loved this song; it’s brimming with hope and happiness, and it makes me think of lush flowering meadows and cool green woods.

The Gentle Art of Potpourri

March 7, 2021 • how to make pot pourri • recipes of long ago • the gentle art of potpourri • The Peacock's Tales • wild flowers

Did you ever make rose petal perfume as a child? My sister and I did; packing rose petals into jam jars, filling them with water and leaving them to rest in the sun...

Snowdrops

January 8, 2021 • Candlemas Bells • Fair Maids of February • Flora Britannica • Little Malvern Priory • Snowdrops • The Peacock's Tales • Vintage Tales • wild flowers • winter

Pushing through the earth under the gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes, were little pointed green shoots, around them the ground was hard and frost bitten, but it wasn’t putting them off, not a bit of it. Snowdrops! And immediately I was looking forward to spring.