Every year when the kids all trickle back to the classrooms, I think of that clock and prepare myself for the bittersweet back to school transition.
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Instead its the fabled history I’ve read about that makes me giddy when I pass a patch of it.
Dame’s rocket originated somewhere far, far away, and apparently it was cultivated in English gardens where it acquired its fancy common name. (Hesperis matronalis doesn’t quite have a ring to it.)
A fine lady, standing upright like a rocket, in the garden
There are many differing stories about how it got its name, but the one I like the best is that it simply is a fine lady, standing upright and tall like a rocket, in the garden. Other sources say it got its rocket name because of its fragrance, which only adds to the greatness of this invasive plant.