wild flowers better than any forced blooms

And I'm sorry - got carried away with nostalgia seeing your picture that I forgot to say how lovely it is!

I agree. When I was a child, our family had 5 acres with maybe 2 acres just field. It wasn't a meadow but there were lots of wildflowers that grew in it. My grandma had a small house not far from ours and I remember her always having a small vase of the flowers in her place in summer. Thanks to growing up in the country, it sparked a lifelong love of plants. Even before I was a teenager, I had learned the name of most of the flowers and other plants on our place.