The Cuckoo Flowers, a.k.a. Lady's Smock are now in flower on our rough bit of grass.
The Bard mentioned them in his Love’s Labour’s Lost:
“When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,
Do paint the meadows with delight…”
(Act V, Scene II)
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