How many gentle flowers grow
In an English country garden?
I’ll tell you now of some I know
And those I’ll miss I hope you’ll pardon
Daffodils, heart’s ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lilly (sic) stalks
Gentain (sic), lupine (sic)and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
How many insects find their home
In an English country garden?
I’ll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you’ll pardon
Dragonflies, moths, gnats and bees
Spiders falling from the trees
Butterflies sway in the mild gentle breeze
There are hedgehogs that roam
And little garden gnomes
In an English country garden
How many songbirds make their nests
In an English country garden?
I’ll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you’ll pardon
Bobolink, coo cooing doves
Robins and the whirlwind thrush
Bluebird, lark, pigeon, nightingale
We all smile in the spring
When the birds all start to sing
In an English country garden
« Field Convolvulus » published in « Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers », 1891
« Harebell » published in « Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers », 1891.
« Lady’s Smock, Bittercress or Cuckoo Flower » published in « Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers »,1891
« A New Cabinet Cyclopedia », 1819
« A New Cabinet Cyclopedia », 1819
Medicinal Plants with Senna, Colocynth, Jalap and Castor Oil. « Rhind’s Vegetable Kingdom », 1866
Le Cabinet de Curiosités de Madeleine Miranda 