Lady in a bath

And outrage -please read my final para!!!!

Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Alba' (which used to be known as Dicentra spectabilis and in the pink version commonly as Bleeding heart) has as one of its common names Lady in a bath.

This is because, as Neill my tutor demonstrated today, if you pluck a flower of this white form and turn it upside down so that it is no longer hanging, and gently pull apart the two 'handles' on either side of the two lower petals, it forms a bathtub with a lady sitting in it, skin as white and smooth as porcelain. And he's right! How wonderful is nature!!!

Will catch up with comments tomorrow I hope. Went to a very stormy public meeting with the council tonight where we discovered to our shock and disbelief that the recent coppicing in the local little wood that has so enraged local residents was in fact not part of a sensible woodland management plan poorly communicated (as I'd assumed) but a local resident being allowed by the council to do it himself to give him a sea view. And he just got contractors to simply chop the trees down. And it's part of a designated Special Scientific Interest site. No, I'm not making this up.