One of the pieces I very much enjoyed in ‘A Country Zodiac’ is an extract written by Nicolas Culpeper. The seventeenth century herbalist and botanist describes in great detail the Viper’s Bugloss seen in the photograph above.
It is a vivid description and I like it very much. I like to think of it as ‘a most gallant herb of the Sun’ as I go past the plant each day.
The Solitary Reader 