Simply..sad flowers?

I have just learned that one of the common names of astrantia is Melancholy Gentlemen!

This lovely one is called Hadspen's Blood. I told this to a visitor on an open day (we used to open the garden in the yellow book scheme). She exclaimed Husband's Blood! That's a strange name for a plant!

Hadspen was a wonderful garden in Somerset, sadly no longer in existence.