Tezos

Joys to Come

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Ficaria verna Common name: Lesser Celandine Celandine comes from chelidon, the Greek word for swallow. The idea was that this flower bloomed when the swallows returned from migration and faded when they left. Which turned out to be wrong, the timing doesn't match at all, but the name stuck. The Celts called it crian, their word for the sun, and that one is more accurate because the petals are heliotropic, they physically track sunlight across the sky and close before rain comes. Welsh farmers used to wait for celandine to bloom before sowing cereal crops. Scottish farmers hung the tubers in cow sheds to guarantee milk yields. The Irish did the same thing but for a different reason, to stop fairies from stealing it. In C. S. Lewis's Narnia, when Aslan returns and winter breaks, the ground covers itself with celandines. In the Victorian language of flowers the meaning was joys to come. Wordsworth preferred these to daffodils, wrote three poems about them, and when he died they carved celandine on his memorial at Grasmere. But the stonemason got the wrong plant. He carved Greater Celandine instead, which is actually a poppy. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

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celandine

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