Veronica

Today's the day .................. for the Quaker Botanists

I think this is a Veronica incana - although I am more than open for suggestions to the contrary?! At any rate, it is a plant to be found in the garden of the Friends Meeting House in Kendal.

In this garden you will find many plants introduced to this country in the 18th and 19th centuries by Quaker plantsmen such as Thomas Lawson, John Tradescant and John Bartram. Chelone obliqua, a pink flowered perennial is one that was introduced by Bartram as were several members of the phlox family.

The garden was once a Quaker burial ground and some of the simple headstones have been re-laid alongside the path. Phlox subulata can be found growing amongst the gravestones ................