Then Eva saw how, on large, white leaves, the Fairies learned to imitate the lovely colors, and with tiny brushes to brighten the blush on the anemone's cheek, to deepen the blue of the violet's eye, and add new light to the golden cowslip.
The rose glowed with a deeper crimson, the lily's soft leaves were more purely white, the crocus and humble cowslip shone like sunlight, and the violet was blue as the sky that smiled above it.
His good nature had taken off the keenest edge of her suffering, and nuts with
cowslip wine began to assert their legitimate influence.
Another wildflower, marsh marigold, also has
cowslip as an alternate moniker.
The
cowslip is one of our most familiar plants with its nodding egg-yolk yellow blooms, which will soon be brightening up meadows throughout Cleveland.
There are taller varieties such as the lollipopshaped flowers of Primula denticulata, which come out a bit later, or the traditional, more familiar types such as the primrose and the
cowslip.
The Romans believed
Cowslip flowers possessed aphrodisiac properties, and were made into love potions, and crystallised.
Also at The Leas, mild autumnal weather could be the cause of some un-seasonal sightings in November when rangers spotted a
cowslip in bloom and a red admiral butterfly.
The rare
cowslip meadow provides moths and butterflies with a source of food.
They are thought to be hybrids of primula species, including our native primrose,
cowslip and dark leaved purple flowered primula Wanda.
Everything has gone wrong for
Cowslip Pike; firstly the silly name her parents gave her led to unhappy nicknames at school, where life is dominated by swanky new girl Venetia, who has a pony.
Some early American colonists referred to marsh marigold by another name, American
cowslip. When they saw its golden flowers in the marshes, they named it for the familiar flagrant yellow flower of their English meadows,
cowslip.
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled
cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.
