Students at La Sainte Union, in Dartmouth Park, Camden, asked Parliament Hill's Electric Daisy Flower farm to lend them props for an upcoming school production.
With all the world exchanging flowers, I set myself the challenge to pick a pretty bunch from my garden. It has been a strange old year, with plants blooming out of sequence and birds nesting way before their time, but I was still surprised by the generosity of my plot. Nothing showy, but I came away with a fragrant snapshot of whatâs growing now.
I could delve deep into the language and meaning of these flowers, and tell you the arums denote ardour, bay constancy, cherry blossom beauty, hazel peace, hellebore scandal, myrtle love, rosemary remembrance, and sage esteem, but that would be telling. I just put them in a vase and let them speak for themselves.