Love-in-a-mist
Nigella damascena · Garden flowers
Love-in-a-mist
Goodnestone, 1 June 2024
The mist is the plant's own foliage, threadlike and finely divided, showing up around and even through the flower itself.
An old cottage-garden annual, and one that seeds itself around freely enough that a single sowing tends to keep coming back. The seed pods that follow are as good as the flowers - inflated, striped and horned - and the seeds inside are the nigella of Indian cooking, or near enough.
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