On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:58:38 -0400, Pat Kiewicz
wrote:

NOTTNICK said:


Seen in the gardens at Cottesbrooke today.

www.bellows.org.uk/misc/flower.jpg


Something in the Pinks family (Caryophyllaceae), I think.

Possibly a white culitvar of Lychnis (campion) or Agrostemma
(corncockle)?

Plant trivia: 'Pink' originally refered to the *notching* found on
the flower petals, and only later came to mean the *color* that is
typical of most pinks. (The older meaning of the word continues
in use for the special type of scissors known as "pinking shears.")


The leaves at the bottom of the photos resemble four o'clocks, as do
the flowers.

Boron