The inside of the blossom looks like grandma's bonnet, if, that is, your grandma wears one.
Today, inside Hughenden Manor's Walled Garden, we were admiring this delicate blossom. The gardener told us it was Grandma's Bonnet, aka Aquilegia. None of us North Americans had heard of it, but when I looked it up, it turns out Grandma's Bonnet is also known as Columbine.
Sort of like a car hood is called a bonnet here, I guess Columbine is known as Grandma's Bonnet.
The back garden at Hughenden, photographed illegally from inside the house.
Hughenden is pronounced with a hard "g", HEWGenden. Now a National Trust property, Hughenden was the home of Benjamin Disraeli, a failed novelist who turned to politics.
Happens to the best of us.
