Solomon's Seal

Today's the day ……………………… to be cool

This is a plant that I always associate with my late Father-in-law - because he gave us a pot of them from his garden, that we had for many years in ours.

Solomon's seal is an old cottage garden plant that appears early in spring, producing graceful, arching stems with precisely paired, oval leaves along their length. These are quickly joined by dangling, green-tipped, white bells that persist throughout late spring and early summer.  We are delighted to find that we have a veritable forest of them here.  They obviously enjoy the environment that they're in - a damp, cool, shady, humus-rich border.

And things were very damp today as you can see ……………………...