HaHa Kitty. Coulda been. It's one of my earliest gardening memories (my granny died when I was 8). I was looking at these gorgeous yellow flowers with red splotches in her garden and she told me they were called monkey flowers because they looked like monkey's faces. Mind you my granda also told me he had the biggest worms in the world (he really did!!!) because he fed them on Balmoral Wafer biscuits!!!
Horny goat weed (barrenwort or epimedium) Mother-in-law’s tongue Did someone already mention sneezewort?
But my favourites from reading an American poem by Arthur Guiterman as a child are Indian pipe and moccasin flower (also called pink lady’s slipper):
Indian pipe and moccasin flower Grow where the woodland waves, Grow in the moss and the bracken bower Trod by the light-foot braves Who played their part, who lived their hour And left, with a name that thrills, Indian pipe and moccasin flower Scattered among our hills.
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It's one of my earliest gardening memories (my granny died when I was 8). I was looking at these gorgeous yellow flowers with red splotches in her garden and she told me they were called monkey flowers because they looked like monkey's faces.
Mind you my granda also told me he had the biggest worms in the world (he really did!!!) because he fed them on Balmoral Wafer biscuits!!!
Lords and Ladies,Jack in a pulpit or Cuckoo Pint for types of Arums when you get the red berry spires.
Mother-in-law’s tongue
Did someone already mention sneezewort?
But my favourites from reading an American poem by Arthur Guiterman as a child are Indian pipe and moccasin flower (also called pink lady’s slipper):
Indian pipe and moccasin flower
Grow where the woodland waves,
Grow in the moss and the bracken bower
Trod by the light-foot braves
Who played their part, who lived their hour
And left, with a name that thrills,
Indian pipe and moccasin flower
Scattered among our hills.