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Name That Weedy Flower!
I'm expecting this one will be easy for folks, but it hasn't been for me.
This wildflower: http://www.paghat.com/images/sweetsomething_aug.jpg has been blooming all summer & still blooming now. It popped up in a roadside sungarden as a volunteer, very tiny last year, a good-sized clump this year. It's less than two feet tall. The clusters of blooms add up at biggeset to the size of a fist. I remember when I was a child this very flower grew around a stump with yarrows on my great-gram's farm & the grandkids would pick them & gramma taught us how to dry flowers using this thing. But I can't for the life of me remember what she called them. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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Name That Weedy Flower!
Oh my god - I had the same thing come up in my garden this year I presume
from the wild flower packet I threw around - I would love to know what it is as well. It is definitely an everlasting but blasted if I could figure out what kind!! "paghat" wrote in message news I'm expecting this one will be easy for folks, but it hasn't been for me. This wildflower: http://www.paghat.com/images/sweetsomething_aug.jpg has been blooming all summer & still blooming now. It popped up in a roadside sungarden as a volunteer, very tiny last year, a good-sized clump this year. It's less than two feet tall. The clusters of blooms add up at biggeset to the size of a fist. I remember when I was a child this very flower grew around a stump with yarrows on my great-gram's farm & the grandkids would pick them & gramma taught us how to dry flowers using this thing. But I can't for the life of me remember what she called them. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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Name That Weedy Flower!
Can't remember the name, it is an everlasting and used in dried flower
arrangements. I used to have this up North. "Tina Gibson" wrote in message news:ATXib.95064$9l5.49@pd7tw2no... Oh my god - I had the same thing come up in my garden this year I presume from the wild flower packet I threw around - I would love to know what it is as well. It is definitely an everlasting but blasted if I could figure out what kind!! "paghat" wrote in message news I'm expecting this one will be easy for folks, but it hasn't been for me. This wildflower: http://www.paghat.com/images/sweetsomething_aug.jpg has been blooming all summer & still blooming now. It popped up in a roadside sungarden as a volunteer, very tiny last year, a good-sized clump this year. It's less than two feet tall. The clusters of blooms add up at biggeset to the size of a fist. I remember when I was a child this very flower grew around a stump with yarrows on my great-gram's farm & the grandkids would pick them & gramma taught us how to dry flowers using this thing. But I can't for the life of me remember what she called them. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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Name That Weedy Flower!
Gnaphalium obtusifolium, commonly called "rabbit tobacco".
It is also one of the plants commonly called "everlasting" and used in dried flower arrangements. paghat wrote in message news I'm expecting this one will be easy for folks, but it hasn't been for me. This wildflower: http://www.paghat.com/images/sweetsomething_aug.jpg has been blooming all summer & still blooming now. It popped up in a roadside sungarden as a volunteer, very tiny last year, a good-sized clump this year. It's less than two feet tall. The clusters of blooms add up at biggeset to the size of a fist. I remember when I was a child this very flower grew around a stump with yarrows on my great-gram's farm & the grandkids would pick them & gramma taught us how to dry flowers using this thing. But I can't for the life of me remember what she called them. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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Name That Weedy Flower!
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"Cereoid-UR12-" wrote: Gnaphalium obtusifolium, commonly called "rabbit tobacco". It is also one of the plants commonly called "everlasting" and used in dried flower arrangements. Thanks! That put me on the right track at least, & I was able to start on the right page of the natives guide to figure this out. Gnapalium obtusifolium has slightly pointed flowers making up a looser raceme & is native of Eastern N.A. This one appears to be Pseudognaphalium macounii with flat-topped barrel shaped flowers in a tighter bunch, & native of right here in the Northwest (as well as all of Canada & most of the northern US). My great-gran growing it around a stump in a meadow along with yarrows seems to have been a common thing in times past, both plants needing no attention & purportedly having medicinal values. -paghat the ratgirl paghat wrote in message news I'm expecting this one will be easy for folks, but it hasn't been for me. This wildflower: http://www.paghat.com/images/sweetsomething_aug.jpg has been blooming all summer & still blooming now. It popped up in a roadside sungarden as a volunteer, very tiny last year, a good-sized clump this year. It's less than two feet tall. The clusters of blooms add up at biggeset to the size of a fist. I remember when I was a child this very flower grew around a stump with yarrows on my great-gram's farm & the grandkids would pick them & gramma taught us how to dry flowers using this thing. But I can't for the life of me remember what she called them. -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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