フロントガーデンの方でも咲き始めた宿根草があります。
（実は投稿が全然追いついていません…）
ダイアンサス（四季咲きナデシコ）‘アルビフロールス’
Cicely Mary Barkerさんの詩集にこんなに可愛らしいイラストと詩が出ていました。
The Song of the Pink Fairies
Early in the mornings,
when children still are sleeping,
Or late, late at night-time,
beneath the summer moon,
What are they doing,
the busy fairy people?
Could you creep to spy them,
in silent magic shoon,
You might learn a secret,
among the garden borders,
Something never guessed at,
that no one knows or thinks:
Snip, snip, snip, go busy fairy scissors,
Pinking out the edges
of the petals of the Pinks!
Pink Pinks, white Pinks,
double Pinks, and single, ---
Look at them and see
if it's not the truth I tell!
Why call them Pinks
if they weren't pinked out by someone?
And what but fairy scissors
could pink them out so well?
妖精さん、チョッキン、チョッキン、花びらに切り込み入れるの大変ね。
