April 17th

17th/18th - A beautiful weekend ,heralded by a glorious dawn chorus. lots of flowers giving colour to the garden: forget-me-nots, pansies, aubretia, celandine, violets and last be not least the blossom on the tree.

Sweet Violet(Viola odorata)The flower of Aphrodite.

Forget-me-not
There are 2 stories of how the Forget-me-not got it's name:
A Knight and his love were walking together when the Knight fell into the river. As he fell he threw a handful of small blue flowers and shouted forget-me-not as he disappeared under the water.
Or
When God was naming the flowers in the garden of Eden he missed a tiny blue flower amongst the blooms. When he sat to admire his work he heard a little voice saying Forget-me-not.