Happy New Year 2019 Violets down our lane .

 Happy New Year my lovely friends ! Well this is just a very quick one today ....our little dog is poorly again ...another trip to the vet and more medicine ...once again she is improving...but we are only going on very short walkies at the moment .
  Today we walked to the top of our pretty Cornish lane in Mullion and were cheered to see lots of lovely Violets .

                               Violets down our lane on 2nd January 2019

Violets Along The Cliffs - Mullion

So our Sunday walk took us along Polurrian Cliffs to Carrag-Luz ,  the Love Rock . We were delighted to find Cornish Violets ,the sweetly cherry scented  Petasites fragrans or Winter Heliotrope , the coconut scented Gorse which I missed taking a photo of and the lovely Narcissus cheerfulness . Back to the Polurrian Hotel where the lovingly tended gardens are full of exotic plants . Coffee for him  and hot chocolate topped with whipped cream'n'marshmallows for me and shortbread biscuits to share with one tired little Jack Russel .

Violets

                                      O Wind , where have you been
                                       That you blow so sweet ?
                                           Among the violets
                                         Which blossom at your feet .

                                           The honeysuckle waits
                                          For summer and for heat ,
                                          But Violets in the chilly spring
                                            Make the turf so sweet !
                                                                                    Christina Rossetti 1873

 So with the cafe closed at Charmouth , off we drove to Groves Nursery in Bridport .
....Where we enjoyed a huge...and I mean huge, full English breakfast !
I stocked up on shallots and onion sets , peas , beans , seed potatoes , greyhound cabbage and kale seeds and potato sacks......hormone rooting powder ....
    ............. and then fell in love ....... with Mr Groves collection of Violets .
 Violets ,  an almost forgotten about treasure of our English wild-flowers  .
Oh ! My goodness me ! This was the first time I have ever breathed in that sweet scent from a real Violet flower , heavenly !
 With delightful names such as Grandads Violet , Annalesia , Becky Groves ,Perle Rose , Lydia's Legacy , Lavenders Lady , Dawnie and Dick o The Hills .
 I took home with me to Cornwall , The Baroness de Rothschild ....an early Valentine 's  Day gift from my husband xxx
Our Cornish violets , which are so beautiful , along our Predannack Cliffs , Mullion , sadly have no fragrance ,  unlike the ones that grow in Devon and Dorset ...I must go and see them ..they must be loving this rainy weather !