Don't Pick the Flowers
"Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.
~William Allingham (1824-1889)
Photo taken at Abu Dhabi Corniche Gardens.
It is the traveler's dower.
~William Allingham (1824-1889)
Photo taken at Abu Dhabi Corniche Gardens.
6 comments:
These are tropical flowers. I remember growing them in our garden in S. America. Thanks for jogging my memory. WOW!
Beautiful!
Yes, Sam. I was surprised to see them growing here and looking so good given the current temperature (100oF). Any ideas what they're called?
I remember we called it the sweetheart flowers, because the tiny flowers look like hearts
They grow super-wild in Jamaica. They used to grow wild here too, but we hardly see them around now. My mother tried planting this in our garden in the 80's, she said, but they died.
We call it 'kyarita bush'. I think 'kyarita' means 'character' - honour, behaviour...as in, "She ain't got no kyarita".
Thanks for the info Sam & Guyana Gyal. And to think I wasn't going to bother to post this photo - Glad I did.
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