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Lavender.

In my front and back garden I grow Lavender. I carefully collect the lavender seeds as they ripen and put them in small cotton sacks. These sacks are to be found in all my drawers and wardrobes in fact all over my old house one smells the sweet smell of lavender. The Fairies often come to visit me and they are delighted with the smell of my lavender sacks. To surprise me they have planted lavender everywhere in Fairyland. It is now a question of who can harvest the lavender. Many visitors to Fairyland pick bushels of the lavender seeds and take them home with them. This displeases the Fairies they have grown the lavender to please me not for the other Humans that wander over the Heath at Dartford.

I tried to explain to the Fairies that there is enough Lavender for all and they should not be upset when others take the lavender home. The Fairies were not satisfied with my explanation and discussed for a long time what they should do to stop other people from taking the lavender. Many ideas were put forward one of which was that the lavender would only smell for me anyone else picking the flowers would not be able to enjoy the sweet smells that the lavender gives off. Another idea was to stop the lavender from being picked the stems of the flowers were to be made so hard that even with a very sharp knife no one could take them with them unless they pulled the whole plant out of the ground.

The only good idea was that the Fairies should concentrate only on the lavender growing in my front and back garden. Some want to get rid of the lavender growing in Fairyland. I told them that this would be a shame as the flowers bring so much delight to all that wander through the Heath. Many people like to just smell the sweet scent from the flowers, others the lovely blue from the lavender. Her Majesty Queen Feeanna put a stop to all of the arguments and bickering about what to do with the lavender growing on the Heath. No more lavender flowers were to be grown and all those that are growing on the Heath and in Fairyland were to be left alone. Her Majesty a very wise woman knew that if left well alone the lavender would grow wild. Wild lavender will not produce so many of the sweet smelling seed and no one would want to pick them to take home with them to put in small cotton sacks to place in the cupboards and drawers where the clean washing was placed for safe keeping. The wild lavender is still a delight to look at and they still give off a sweet scent that pleases all that come across them on their wanderings through the Heath and Fairyland. Bern.