Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' in my garden yesterday.
Lavender
Grey walls that lichen stains,
That take the sun and the rains,
Old, stately, and wise;
Clipt yews, old lawns flag-bordered,
In ancient ways yet ordered;
South walks where the loud bee plies,
Day-long the summer flies;-
Here grows Lavender, here breathes England.
Gay cottage gardens, glad,
Comely, unkempt and mad,
Jumbled, jolly and quaint;
Currants beans and roses
Mingling without restraint;
A wicket that long lacks paint;-
Here grows Lavender, here breathes England.
Sprawling for elblow room,
Spearing straight spikes of bloom,
Clean, wayward and tough;
Sweet, tall and slender,
True, enduring and tender,
Buoyant and bold and bluff,
Simplest, sanest of stuff;-
Thus grows Lavender, thence breathes England.
~ Anonymous~
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