Two pansies, a Johnny Jump Up, and one Earliglow strawberry flower. The one pansy isn't red, it's dark purple-ish and almost black but camera things..

#BloomScrolling #ViolaTricolor #heartsease #ViolaWittrockiana #PurpleFlowers #YellowFlowers #WhiteFlowers #VioletFlowers #FlowersOfMastodon #flowers #florespondence #StrawberryBlossom #EarliGlowStrawberries

I bought a wildflower that is dear to me, and today it flowered.

Heart's Ease (viola tricolor) is a native here. I remember it being all over where I grew up, but have only rarley seen it in the wild since.

Am hoping that, as it is pretty good at self-seeding, my garden can be the start of a new wee colony.
#HeartsEase #WildFlowers #scotland #gardening #nature #BloomScrolling

November 22, 1900
#OTD #Science & #Flowers: Study of the One Does Not Destroy
the Love of the Other (The Indianapolis News)

"[The #Botanist should] keep up the old names as well as the new.

We must always have our #SweetWilliam, #Kingcup, #SweetCicely, #Loosestrife, #Heartsease, Codlins-and-Creams, & #Feverfew.

All [these] #Names [have] #Stories. [Their] loss would be a loss to the #Language; their very mention turns thoughts to #Gardens & the pasture #Lands of #Summer gone but come again."