Is This a Weed?
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote:
Centranthus ruber (Red Valerian), a garden plant often naturalised,
especially, I think, in coastal areas.
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Don't we have the Romans to thank for bringing it in originally? We have
loads of it, both red and white, flowering around Peterborough and near-
by villages. Makes a nice change from field upon field of oil seed rape
flowers from which there is no escape.
MikeCT
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