VIDEO: No better time to plant France's national flower - the Fleur de Lis

Peter Dowdall says the national flower of France can be planted now as a private act of solidarity at home.

MANY countries have built up special relationships with plants and have national plants, just like Ireland with the shamrock, Wales with the leek and Holland with the tulip, (which not only continues to play an important part in Dutch commerce — it precipitated an economic crash too, in 1637).

Most of us cannot get our heads around recent happenings in France — but if you wish, you could plant some iris in your garden now — as this is the Fleur de Lis, the national flower of France.