Mary Mallia (July 8) contributed a photo of the flower Maltese Cross (Lychnis Chalcedonica). One of the "bibles" on my bookshelf is Sunset Western Garden Book. It's all you need to know about what ...

I distinctly remember being shown, as an eight or nine year old in the 1950s, a Maltese Cross plant in seed in the late summer going into autumn. This would have been during the period around ...