Did you know that another name for the cornflower is the bachelors button. The name, Bachelor’s Button, may have arisen during Victorian times when the flowers were often placed in the button holes of men’s suit coats. In his 1851 book, The Flower Garden, Joseph Breck dismisses them as a common weed known as Blue…
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Violaceous lilacs
I love lilacs for so many reasons, their beautiful blooms, their exquisitely pungent perfume, and most of all their colour. I was trying to think of all the colour names that come to mind when painting lilacs…. Lavender, violet, plum, magenta, amarinthine blue, violet amethyst, mulberry, mauve, periwinkle, purple, pomegranate, wine red, lilac, white
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