But now the value of those overlooked weeds is once again recognised.
Around this time of year at my village primary school we used to pipe up a bucolic hymn: “Daisies are our silver,/ Buttercups our gold:/ This is all the treasure/ We can have or hold.” Written by Jan Struther, the creator of the popular wartime heroine, Mrs Miniver, the hymn is a jewelled evocation of the humble virtues of wild flowers, often regarded by gardeners as weeds.Īs my generation of schoolchildren began our careers, the idea of wild flowers as the only wealth we might aspire to became increasingly unfashionable.
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