Traveller’s joy, the wild clematis called the Virgin’s bower, was held to come into flower when the Virgin left the earth, at the feast of the Assumption. Forster’s rhyme of the saints’ flowers links the two.
The Virgin’s bower at the Assumption
15 August · England
Lore and belief
When Mary left us here below, / The Virgin's Bower begins to blow;
From Forster's Perennial Calendar, p. 108. Read the original
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