When the Chelsea Flower Show takes place in London, I start thinking of flowers for children. There was a big buzz around the 2013 annual Chelsea Flower Show in May because one of the main attractions was Prince Harry’s garden.
Luce will be a perfect English rose in her Angelina dress (which she’s wearing above) by family-owned British clothes store Trotters.
For the magical power of flowers there’s nothing like reading or just looking at Cicely Mary Barker’s The Complete Book of Flower Fairies. The English illustrator’s water colors of fairies and flowers mesmerize me and are still incredibly popular today even though she was born in 1895 and died in 1973.
So flowers are cool for kids in Britain! As even the British punk band The Jam sang, “No matter where I roam, I will come back to my English Rose.”
