Thought for the Week: Love-in-a-mist

Malcolm Edmunds reflects on love-in-the-mist

by Malcolm Edmunds 31st October 2014

A few Sundays back the Friend who brought flowers to Meeting included in her small posy three flower heads of Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena).

Love-in-a-mist has pale blue petals and delicate leaves and bracts, but these three flowers had shed all of their petals and the green seed capsules had each swollen to the diameter of a fifty pence coin with several branched horn-like projections. Because of this change of appearance the seed head is sometimes called Devil-in-the-bush.