After the city mower took its toll along the footpaths and the hedgerows the chicory was the first to come back following close behind of course is the tansy sunny and mimosa like but like every love child born from a slip and not a seed untouched by the plow are yarrow the near cousins of tansy not by germ but in point of proximity leaving the blues and the yellows but still surviving the plow the architecturally perfect creeping bellflower and the homely speedwell here and there bee balm and bergamot but when we leave the riot of fuschia and blue we find still more yellows alive and well sow weed rapeseed and trefoil and there'll be more before we're done for the Summer but that's for another time that give's us the day.