Vintage flower fairy

Sender: TheGreenOne The Gorse Fairies From a Flower Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker I was happy to get this card as an addition to my fairy collection! TQ TheGreenOne!

We look at Cicely Mary Barker's The Flower Fairies illustrations from a new exhibition at Mottisfont Abbey.

Our stalks are very straight and tall, Our colours clear and bright; Too many-hued to name them all— Red, yellow, pink, or white. And some are splashed, and some, maybe, As dark as any plum. From tulip-fields across the sea To England did we come. We were a peaceful country’s pride, And

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Where the grass is damp and green, Where the shallow streams are flowing, Where the cowslip buds are showing, I am seen. Dainty as a fairy’s frock, White or mauve, of elfin sewing, ’Tis the meadow-maiden growing— Lady’s-smock.

The Hazel-Nut Fairy ❀ by Cicely Mary Barker