Love-in-a-Mist 'Nigella Damascena'
is an old fashioned garden annual belonging to the buttercup
family. Also known as 'Ragged Lady', Devil in the bush, or as
I like to call her, ‘Medusa’.
She is an
exotic wildflower and one of my favourites in the garden
meadow. The flowers are surrounded by a series of bracts,
these are supported by a thread-like leaf structure, known as
a ruff, this gives the appearance of the flowers being
surrounded by a mist, hence the romantic name, Love-in-a-mist.
Double flowers appear to peek through the mist in colours of
blue, pink and white. |
