Purple Allium.......

..........plus a fly!!

I have several of these opening up now - I love the colour.
Also, I have many small ones, in white and yellow - but not as striking as these purple ones. They open a little later.

I think these are A. hollandicum 'Purple Sensation' is one of the most popular and has been given an Award of Garden Merit.

Anni reports that Himselfs back is a little better - he says the rum helps!!

BOUI are, of course, relating to Alliums - not surprisingly!:-

1) A European legend says if a runner chews a piece of garlic, no other runner will pass him.

2) Garlic clove pendants hung around the neck protected you from the sharp horns of a bull, warded off local witches and kept away the black plague.

3) Garlic was placed by the ancient Greeks on the piles of stones at cross-roads, as a supper for Hecate ( Theophrastus, The Superstitious Man ); and according to Pliny, garlic and onions were invoked as deities by the Egyptians at the taking of oaths. The inhabitants of Pelusium in lower Egypt, who worshipped the onion, are said to have had an aversion to both onions and garlic as food.

4) In Northeastern India, it is believed that garlic mixed with water spread around the home will keep snakes from entering.

Another lovely day - temperature at this moment - (16.oohrs) is reading 66 Deg.F.

Hope you are having sunshine too.