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Hello all,
Can anyone put a name to this pretty plant, found growing in my daughters' garden in Scotland.
Many thanks.
Name this plant - please.
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oldherbaceous
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Dear Diane, i'm pretty certain it's a Cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis.
And a lovely plant it is as well.
And a lovely plant it is as well.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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It is definitely the cuckoo flower, so called because it flowers when the cuckoo first arrives, it's also known as Lady's Smock and likes damp soil. Where it grows in large numbers (and it often does in damp meadows), you are likely to see the orange tip butterfly!
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I just love the many local names for our wild flowers.
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Just for the record, its Welsh name is Llaeth y gaseg, which means Mare's milk.
The English names have some "rude" associations. My Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman's Flora suggests that "smock" was used coarsely in the 16th and 17th centuries in the same way as the mid-20th century expressions "skirt" or "a bit of skirt", and "smickering" was making amorous/leacherous looks (one country name for the flower is Smick-smocks). Unfortunatly, you just don't get the milkmaids these days to smicker at
The English names have some "rude" associations. My Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman's Flora suggests that "smock" was used coarsely in the 16th and 17th centuries in the same way as the mid-20th century expressions "skirt" or "a bit of skirt", and "smickering" was making amorous/leacherous looks (one country name for the flower is Smick-smocks). Unfortunatly, you just don't get the milkmaids these days to smicker at