Springtime in The Roe Valley

OX-EYE DAISY
(Innocence: Faithful Love.)

Men by reason well it calle may
The Daisie, or else the Eye of Day,
The Empresse and the flowre of flowres all."

Chaucer.


In the days of Chaucer the Daisy was called the E'e o' Daie (Eye of Day) and this name became Day's Eye and eventually Daisy. The Welsh call the Daisy the Trembling Star; In Scotland it is called the Gowan.
In olden times the Daisy was called the measure of love, from the practice of youths and maidens reading their future fates by pulling of the petals and repeating the words, "He loves me, he loves me not."

Daisies bloom in the Spring and Summer.