Of all the spring flowers, I live primroses best; they are such a delicate shade of pale yellow and yet they aren’t wishy-washy or uninteresting. The name comes not from them being ‘prim’ or shy, but from prima rosa, being among the first spring flowers (yes I know snowdrops and crocuses and daffodils sometimes come out before them, and I know they are not actually members of the rose family)
What I had forgotten and only remembered when I was trying to find out more about primroses is that April 19th is Primrose Day, commemorating the death of Benjamin Disraeli. They were his favourite flowers and Queen Victoria used to send him bunches of them. What I didn’t know was that the primrose is the county flower of Devon.
Primroses growing on the sides of the motte at Tonbridge Castle
As a child I remember an old lady selling violets on Petty Cury in Cambridge. I don’t know what she sat on, but she sat in a doorway in long all enveloping clothes, with wraps round her shoulder and an old hat on her head. She had a basket of flowers and would call out “vi’lets, lovely vi’lets“. When my dad was first going out with my mum they worked at the same place; she was a clerical officer, he was a scientist. he would buy a bunch of violets from the flower lady of Petty Cury; my mum would be busy working, head bent over her typewriter and suddenly a bunch of violets would land on the keys… how romantic!
Violets also grow on Tonbridge Castle motte
Lois Elsden 
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