"Ann" wrote in message
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John - Pa. expounded:

Cool. Where I was taking that single portrait shot there was a whole
field of them

They used to be grown for the dried heads, which were used to raise the knap
on wool cloth.

There was a Yorkshire saying (Yorkshire was famous for it's wool
manufacturing):

"Like bees round a tazzle field".

It meant something like flies round a honey pot - or whatever you say in
your part of the world :-) Bees certainly do love teasels en masse but
they're not much good to honey bees when their aren't a lot of them.

Yes, that's usually the way you'll find them! G My mother has them
in her herb garden, she lets a few stay each year but ruthlessly weeds
out the rest!

Me too, but this year one even grew in a window box. It was a trifle stunted
:-)

Mary