@Basmitharts @Rfm That is my educated guess also.

If so, they are quite resilient, but they might need a little help to make a true comeback. Beautiful flowers IMHO. One of my favorites, in fact, along with #SnapDragons.

#SweetWilliam

November 22, 1900
#OTD #Science & #Flowers: Study of the One Does Not Destroy
the Love of the Other (The Indianapolis News)

"[The #Botanist should] keep up the old names as well as the new.

We must always have our #SweetWilliam, #Kingcup, #SweetCicely, #Loosestrife, #Heartsease, Codlins-and-Creams, & #Feverfew.

All [these] names [have] #Stories. [Their] loss would be a loss to the #Language; their very mention turns thoughts to #Gardens & the pasture #Lands of #Summer gone but come again."