Christmas Flower Legends
The Ash Tree lent its branches for the fire on the first Christmas night and since then its beneficial quality of burning green has been confirmed.
The White Campion only yields its scent at night to commemorate its hour of the sacred birth.
The Great Mullein is called the sacred flannel because its wooly leaves were used for the first swaddling clothes.
The Yellow Galleum burst into golden flowers to make an aureole about the head of the Child and is still called Our Lady’s bedstraw.
The Bracken refused the act of homage and has never flowered since as a consequence. If it is cut across the stem at Christmas it shows the sacred initial in the Greek character as a sign of penitence.
Sheilagh Trier