Recently I have immersed myself in the macro lives of flowers. I like to imagine the eyes that have gazed over time and pondered over the wonder of the world that we live in that is populated with this plethora of colour, genetic diversity and scent that feeds my heart each day. Looking through my window into my small garden i can see verbenas, calendulas, clambering and wild roses, sage flowers competing with rose campions, double headed geraniums mirroring the violet blues of  the climbing clematis and the now going memory of the wisteria and small but perfectly formed forget me nots. I gaze over my garden and ponder, as many have done over the time that has passed  between now and then “The garden should be adorned with roses and lilies, the turnsole, violets, and mandrake; there you should have parsley, cost, fennel, southern-wood, coriander, sage, savory, hyssop, mint, rue, dittany, smallage, pellitory, lettuces, garden-cress, and peonies.   There should also be beds planted with onions, leeks, garlic, pumpkins and shallots.  The cucumber growing in its …