TRESORS DU JARDIN DE MAI ~ TREASURES OF THE MAY GARDEN

             Jardin de Joie ~~  Now Open for Tours ~~  Come Along with Me….

                                                         “How beauteous is this garden;

                                                         Where the flowers of the earth

                                                            Vie with the stars in Heaven….”

                      Quote from an Inscription on a wall at Alhambra Castle in Granada, Spain

“No flower amid the garden fairer grows than the sweet lily of the lowly vale, The Queen of Flowers.”    ~~ John Keats (1795 ~ 1821)

Other names include May lily, May bells, lily constancy, and Muguet (French).  It’s scientific name, majalis means “of or belonging to May”, and old astrological books place the plant under the dominion of Mercury, since Maia, the daughter of Atlas, was the mother of Mercury or Hermes.

Lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis), the flower for May, means sweetness and the return of happiness and is said to bring luck in love.  Technically, lily of the valley is not a lily at all.  The genus is placed in the family Asparagaceae,  formerly the botanical family Ruscaceae, not the Lilliaceae.  It is possibly the ONLY species in the genus Canvallaria. 

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