Oops.

Even the Saturday Market plant man thinks I’m totally crazy now. Why?

I’ve been cutting hazel whips to weave arches for the garden and they need climbing plants to grow all over them. So…

Saturday Man had loads of Clematis plants and I spotted one, laughed out loud and bought it (!)

Pointless to explain there and then but, it’s a Cardinal Rouge Clematis. And I laughed because it reminded me that Marie de Rohan was Cardinal Richelieu’s WORST enemy. They #hated each other.

BTW : Forgive the ego but Marie sounds a bit like me (?)

I stood in front of this portrait in the National Gallery in London. IT’s HUGE.

Marie’s outburst about Richelieu.