An English Country Garden

How many kinds of sweet flowers grow 

In an English country garden? 

We'll tell you now of some that we know 

Those we miss you'll surely pardon 

Daffodils, heart's ease and flox 

Meadowsweet and lady smocks 

Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks 

Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots 

In an English country garden

These are the lyrics of a hit song by Jimmie Rodgers. Taken from an original tune collected and arranged by Percy Grainger. You can listen to both on Spotify or Amazon music.

Our head gardener often sings this song. She finds the chorus of flower names a bit difficult to remember so there are a few “dum dee dums”.

Here are some pics of the flowers:

Daffodils:

Heart’s Ease:

Flox:

Meadowsweet:

Lady Smocks:

Gentian

Lupin

Hollyhocks

Roses:

Foxgloves:

Snowdrops:

Forget me nots

We don’t have all of these flowers in our English Country Garden but we have some of them. And we like them all. They bring colour and fragrance into our lives. (A bit like the head gardener brings to mine).

More soon...