lucus a non lucendo

Dianthus barbatus
(Sweet William, Stinking Billy, noxious ragwort)

I wasn't allowed to use this as bedding when i worked at Inveraray Castle, but "...the English botanist John Gerard referred to Dianthus barbatus as "Sweete Williams" in his garden catalogue of 1596, 150 years before Culloden" (from wikipedia)

dinner with M and D

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