Yellow Alyssum

I am very pleased with this patch of yellow Allysum. I put it in last year and it looked poor and dweeble. The collared doves pecked pieces off it, so it spent the summer with twigs arranged over it, for protection. Now here it is bold, bright and cheery.

The name comes from the Greek a, against and lyssa, madness. Apparently it was used to treat rabies too. It'd be interesting to read up on that.. sometime. The whole history of the definition of madness, who was constructing those definitions and about whom.
(Ever the sociologist. You are never more than 2 paces from a research project...!)