As she walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey ten years ago this month, Kate Middleton held a bouquet of white flowers in her hands. The delicate, white, sweetly fragrant flowers are born in late spring and the broad, lance-shaped leaves provide good ground cover. Other than that, pull out what you can, enjoy the lovely white flowers and eat the leaves. One of the archetypal cottage garden plants, it comes in a range of colours from white to a red so deep it’s almost black. The green foil to the white flowers in the bouquet was provided by myrtle, Myrtus communis.

Source: Daily Mail April 16, 2021 21:33 UTC