The Yellow Primroses.......

.........in my garden have been a picture this year along with their more brightly coloured relatives and most of them are self-seeded.

The name Primrose is taken from the lands of Primrose in the parish of Dunfermline, Scotland. It has been presumed that it originally came from the old British, "prenn rhos": meaning "tree of the moor".
The Primroses were well settled in Fife by the fifteenth century, particularly around Culross Abbey. Henry Primrose, who is thought to have been born sometime prior to 1490, had four sons and one daughter.

Legend has it that no primroses will ever grow in Cockfield, Suffolk because, along with villagers, in the Middle Ages the primroses caught the Plague and died. And there’s the medieval belief that you should never bring fewer than 13 primrose flowers into a house, because your hens would only hatch as many chicks as there were yellow flowers.

Even as late as 1852, a Norfolk mother accused a neighbour of witchcraft, because she’d given a single primrose to her little daughter to bring home. This not only caused the woman’s chickens to lay just one egg, but brought death into the house.

I love these old tales and often wonder how they actually started!

Another bright, crisp morning - blue sky and sunshine and reading 37 Deg F. at 8.25am - lets hope it stays fine!

Make the most of the sunshine if you have any and have a good day.