honey-plant

Updated: May 13, 2025

In the garden, which was full of old-fashioned shrubs and herbs, she watched the bees busy at the sweet-scented 'honey-plant, and sometimes peered under the sage-bush to look at the 'effets' that hid there. By the footpath through the meadows there were now small places where the mowers had tried their new scythes as they came home, a little warm with ale perhaps, from the market town.

Richard Jefferies - Round About a Great Estate