Plants with a personal history

Myrna, I am enjoying these accounts. Maiden pinks are my family heirloom
here, the clove scented dianthus handed down through the generations. But
my favourite perennial of all, which I think is dimorpotheca ecklonsis
(donor thought D. aurantiaca) was given to me by Peggy Macken, the widow of
Walter Macken the Irish novelist, author of Rain on the Wind, when I
started gardening. They close when the rain comes out, no doubt to await
the next chapter. My mother in law never could get her tongue around the
name and settled for calling them Mark's daisies, as she got them from me.
When we moved to London in 1990 guess which was the only plant from my
garden which travelled with us, and travelled back in 94 ? It seems ironic
to me that the plant which now says "home" most to me is an invader from
South Africa, yet I can't imagine living without a clump of it around the
front gate or the flat door, to welcome me home. 
Thanks again for the suggestion. I'm off to see whether I can't find up
some freesias, which I've never grown despite being what Anne wanted most
for her bridal bouquet fifteen years or so ago. 
Mark Speakman 
Annaghdown, Ireland

"Had I the heavens embroidered threads
Enwrought with gold and silver light"

markspkn@iol.ie

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