蜜芽传媒

A flower for all seasons, the daisy - or day's eye - only opens in the light of the sun. It is easy to find at any time of the year, there's barely a day where it isn't flowering somewhere. But it is the very essence of the coming of summer, when its appearance in huge numbers in lawns and fields is a prelude to warmer days. Its abundance in the mildest season has prompted a million children's games, unwritten and unchanged. In the patriotic 1920s it was chosen as the symbol of the British Empire. Is it sheer familiarity that has made this humble plant so endearing?