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Sweet Alyssum

The flowers are sweet-smelling white (rarely pink or lavender), with four petals; they are produced throughout the growing season, or year-round in areas free of frost.

Fritillaria

They often have nodding, bell- or cup-shaped flowers, and the majority are spring-flowering.

Hydrangea

In most species the flowers are white, but in some species can be blue, red, pink, light purple, or dark purple. In these species the exact colour often mirrors the pH of the soil; acidic soils produce blue flowers, neutral soils produce very pale cream petals, and alkaline soils results in pink or purple.

White Yarrow

Some people believed that you could determine the devotion of a lover by poking a yarrow leaf up your nostril and twitching the leaf while saying, "Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow: if my love loves me, my nose will bleed now". Nursery rhymes say if you put a yarrow sachet under your pillow, you will dream of your own true love.

Queen Anne's Lace

It is called Queen Anne's Lace because the flower resembles lace; the red flower in the center represents a blood droplet where Queen Anne pricked herself with a needle when she was making the lace.

Forget-me-not

God named all the plants when a tiny unnamed one cried out, "Forget-me-not, O Lord!" God replied, "That shall be your name."