cab
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Flowers for Foragers?Our living room is currently graced by a bunch of flowers. Scabious, Queen Annes lace, ox-eye daisy and ragwort. A lovely thing really.
Common weeds the lot of them. Am I alone in gathering such things (in small quantities) to brighten the place up?
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woodsprite
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Not alone at all, I collect small bouquets of wild flowers all the time. 
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PeteS
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I find the young leaves of the ox-eye daisy rather tasty - good in salads.
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cab
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| PeteS wrote: | | I find the young leaves of the ox-eye daisy rather tasty - good in salads. |
They are indeed.
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earthyvirgo
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Not alone Cab, the verges are looking beautiful at the moment.
Harebells, scabious, lesser stitchwort, vetch and various umbelifers spotted on the cycle in to work this morning.
EV
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2steps
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nope, not alone  I like dandelions, they are so bright and cheery
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Jamanda
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Ooooh. Please don't pick harebells. They are dwindling rapidly and need to be able to set their seed.
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earthyvirgo
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| Jamanda wrote: | | Ooooh. Please don't pick harebells. They are dwindling rapidly and need to be able to set their seed. |
Don't worry Jamanda, I appreciate some things are for admiring and not picking. My Dad's been a botanist (not by profession, but a passion) all his life, so I learnt quite young what was OK and not OK to pick.
EV
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Jamanda
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| earthyvirgo wrote: | | Jamanda wrote: | | Ooooh. Please don't pick harebells. They are dwindling rapidly and need to be able to set their seed. |
Don't worry Jamanda, I appreciate some things are for admiring and not picking. My Dad's been a botanist (not by profession, but a passion) all his life, so I learnt quite young what was OK and not OK to pick.
EV |
That's good. Have you had a look at M-J's mystery flower?
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