12 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday – Love-in-idleness”

  1. Liz Morton
    July 6, 2016

    Absolutely beautiful, thank you.

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    • croftgarden
      July 6, 2016

      Not bad for an arable weed – it’s a welcome addition to my garden where is self-seeds profusely.

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  2. nanacathy2
    July 6, 2016

    Pretty photo!

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  3. germac4
    July 7, 2016

    I love all pansies, they have such expressive faces! Not bad for a weed, as you say….

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    • croftgarden
      July 7, 2016

      This lot are my “weed of the month” but I haven’t the heart to pull them out. I may regret this next year!

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  4. Freda
    July 15, 2016

    I saw these on the machair last week – so lovely. (I actually knocked on your door but no-one was home!)

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    • croftgarden
      July 19, 2016

      Hello Freda, I’m so sorry I missed you. The machair in flower is particularly glorious this year.

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  5. Cathy
    July 18, 2016

    Never heard it called that before…

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    • croftgarden
      July 19, 2016

      “Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
      It fell upon a little western flower,
      Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound
      And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
      Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew’d thee once:
      The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
      Will make man or woman madly dote
      Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
      It is a little confusing as our Viola tricolour is more often yellow than purple.

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      • Cathy
        July 19, 2016

        Ah of course – not that it would have sprung to mind even if my mind had been on the ball as it was not a play I studied 😉

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        • croftgarden
          July 19, 2016

          The first one I read and still a great favourite.

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