Cuckoo Flower

...or Lady's Smock. A busy day including the first strim in our lumpy garden. Some of it is looking too pretty to cut including this mauve petal, wood anemone, celandine and the many groups of daffodils. In the end the dried monbresia leaves were decimated. Some feeling of satisfaction was achieved.

From the Internet
Cuckooflower, also commonly known as 'Lady's-smock', is a pretty springtime perennial of damp, grassy places like wet meadows, ditches and riverbanks, as well as roadside verges. Its pale pink flowers bloom from April to June and are thought to coincide with the arrival of the first cuckoo. Cuckooflower has a rosette of leaves at its base and an upright stem that bears the delicate, small, pale pink or mauve flowers. Each flower has four petals, although double-flowered varieties do appear.