Day's Eye

A garland from the grass plot

Hello lovely friends, and a happy ‘between the Moons’ to you! This time I thought to write about the common daisy, a magical plant so often overlooked.  As Nicholas Culpeper remarks in his Complete Herbal, ‘These are so well known almost to every child, that I suppose it needless to write any description of them’.

The daisy chain makers, Walsingham, Norfolk

I don’t know why daisies drifted into my mind just at the moment that I was considering what to write about for you this time, but I can’t help thinking they had quiet purpose. Perhaps it was partly because I dream of a little lawn studded with daisies, buttercups and clover. 

I know that lots of people find themselves with a lawn, even if it’s tiny, and then consider where they might put a veg patch or a couple of fruit trees. In my case, even though the garden here is quite big it’s all vegetables, fruit and trees. Let’s not mention the nettles and  thistles that are taller than I am, and the bindweed that, not content with throwing its trickster blanket over everything, is intent on tripping me up each time I venture out!

Somehow I’ve never managed to work out how to fit in a little lawn. 

And just now, daisies are calling …