Queen Anne's Lace

Queen Anne's lace is a familiar sight along our roadsides, hedgerows and woodland edges.

Story has it that the plant was named after Queen Anne who was an accomplished lace maker.

This inspired Mary Leslie Newton to write the following lines:

"Queen Anne, Queen Anne, has washed her lace
(She chose a summer day)
And hung it in a grassy place
To whiten, if it may.

Queen Anne, Queen Anne, has left it there,
And slept the dewy night;
Then waked, to find the sunshine fair,
And all the meadows white...".

Queen Anne's Lace, seems such a fitting and elegant name for such a floral beauty, compared to it's other common name, Cow Parsley.