Smoke of the Earth

Tales from my Witches Garden....

I was out in the garden just now, looking at my pots of herbs, contemplating my plan to move them into the garden bed when the earth warms and I noticed this creeper which I have seen around the property.

After some research, I discovered it is called "Fumitory".

It is is a an Old World plant with spikes of small tubular pink or white flowers and finely divided greyish leaves, often considered a weed - a herbaceous annual flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae.

According to Wikipedia, due to its "smoky" or "fumy" origin of its name comes from the translucent color of its flowers, giving them the appearance of smoke or of hanging in smoke, and the slightly gray-blue haze color of its foliage, also resembling smoke coming from the ground, especially after morning dew the plant was commonly called fūmus terrae (smoke of the earth) in the early 13th century, and two thousand years ago it was already noted for its potent medicinal properties.

How appropriate to find it weaving itself around my Witch's Garden.