Lilly of the Valley

 

My GrandMothers' yard was full of lilacs and lily of the valley, every spring.
I used to love these angelic little bells and they would take me back into small towns
where I would see them as churchbells .
What a lovely sound and fragrance this make believe world of mine had,
living with these flowers.
I had a perfume as well, made from them which I loved

These flowers are also known as Jacobs ladder because of the stem they grow on.
Little bells with so many uses.
Who knew?
They can be used to relieve fevers, as a diuretic , sedative, made into a salve to prevent scarring from burns.
They have some digitalis properties to help old people with their hearts.
Their aroma helps relieve depression and counter effects the brain from aging.
It can help lower blood pressure, gout, rheumatism, sprains and regaining memory

A Lilly of the Valley Legend tells a story of these flowers growing from the blood of St Leonard,
Who fought a battle with the dragon of Horsham, in Surrey, England.

This  perennial comes back every year and spreads through rock gardens, adding
to their mystic qualities.
Where but in God's land, could we find such beauty and poetic power, in so little a plant?
We have so much riches all around us and men walk by never noticing what they are missing.
We use these flowers in little girls' hair, at weddings and othe times when we want to show
angelic delicacy
and
purity
but they have so  much more to offer.
I would definitely put them alongside the Regal Queen Rose,
unquestioned in the flower world, as the most beautiful
on the whole planet.

Mirror Mirror on the wall
Who is the beautifulest of them all?
You my Queen but there is another,
and 
Cinderella is her name.
Have a good one :)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo