English Wildflowers

Iris pseudacorus (Wild Iris, Yellow flag, Segg, Jacob's sword).... "It is sometimes suggested as the origin of the 'fleur-de-lis' of heraldry. 'Segg' (a variant of sedge) is from the Anglo-Saxon for short sword, a reference to the blade-like character of the leaves." Flora Britannica...R Mabey

Iris pseudacorus (Wild Iris, Yellow flag, Segg, Jacob's sword).... "It is sometimes suggested as the origin of the 'fleur-de-lis' of heraldry. 'Segg' (a variant of sedge) is from the Anglo-Saxon for short sword, a reference to the blade-like character of the leaves." Flora Britannica...R Mabey

Titton Brook was dammed to form Hilditch Pool and provided water for Titton Mill.

The Lesser Celandine, William Wordsworth. There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine, That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain; And, the first moment that the sun may shine, Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again! When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up from harm, In close self-shelter, like a Thing at rest. But lately, one rough day, this Flower I passed, And recognized it, though an altered form, Now standing forth an offering to the blast, And buffeted at will by rain and storm. I stopped, and said, with inly-muttered voice, "It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold: This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. "The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew; It cannot help itself in its decay; Stiff in its members, withered, changed of hue." And, in my spleen, I smiled that it was grey. To be a Prodigal's Favourite -then, worse truth, A Miser's Pensioner -behold our lot! O Man, that from thy fair and shining youth Age might but take the things Youth needed not!

(Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) or Poor Man's Weatherglass, long been known as a combined sundial and "weather-glass". Opens its red petals at about 8.00 am and shutting them at about 2 in the afternoon or when the weather becomes dull or wet.)