Ragged Robins

I always wonder how plants get names like this........ Why not rumpled wrens, tatty tits, crumpled crows, tousled terns, battered budgies, distressed ducks, sloppy sparrows, shabby shearwaters, windswept waders, ravaged rooks, crumpled cuckoos or dishevelled doves.

[Asli]

Just beautiful!

[Kitty Hawke]

haha....Ohh the pictures you have now put in my head!

[julia]

I'm pleased some one else was in charge if plant naming... but you are right it does make you wonder.. Scabiosa is the one that I always question..

[Krista Marson]

love how it emerges from the black