Dew on flowers of Great Mullein An aura of butterflies and herbal fragrance at Latterbarrow. Morning dew glistens on petals and plush leaves of Great Mullein as the day grows hot. Deep amongst herbs and flowers there’s the honey fragrance of Lady’s bedstraw and of thyme. Glimpses of secret lives, close-encounters with butterflies.
A circumfusion of butterflies, a morning in their orbit.
My first Mullein Moth caterpillar, so I read around-including Flora Britannica, Richard Mabey.
Great Mullein, Verbascum Thapsus. Aaron’s Rod, Our Lady’s Candle, Hag-tapers, Adam’s Flannel (dew-soaked leaves). Folk lore and folk names remind us of our changing relationship with flora, with the natural world. Hag-tapers – Macbeth’s witches. his 'secret, black and mid-night hags', light the way to bed and a troubled, hag-ridden night.
The thrill is in the moment, in the essence of the morning, of being amongst butterflies on a summer's day. With echoes of the poetry of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a world of wonder, of magic and mischief. The summer solstice falls on 21st June so here is the ambience of midsummer.
Great Mullein, Verbascum Thapsus. Aaron’s Rod, Our Lady’s Candle, Hag-tapers, Adam’s Flannel (dew-soaked leaves). Folk lore and folk names remind us of our changing relationship with flora, with the natural world. Hag-tapers – Macbeth’s witches. his 'secret, black and mid-night hags', light the way to bed and a troubled, hag-ridden night.
The thrill is in the moment, in the essence of the morning, of being amongst butterflies on a summer's day. With echoes of the poetry of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a world of wonder, of magic and mischief. The summer solstice falls on 21st June so here is the ambience of midsummer.
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