After the rain over the last few days all the knapweed plants are now brown and mucky, good thing I took the photo when I did.
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Sue
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Greater Knapweed
A few weeks ago when short of ideas for blog posts I took some photos on the meadow and made a post out of Knapweed! Then it didn't get published so............
There's There WAS a lovely crop of Greater Knapweed on the meadow. It's quite pretty and the bees love it. So is it a wild flower or a weed?...the eternal question. It wouldn't be there if all the meadow was kept cut as it was before we moved here.
The plant gets a mention in the Flower Fairies book by Cicely Mary Barker
I can't imagine many little children even looking at it nowadays and they certainly wouldn't know it's name! and as for growing on chalk - it's heavy clay here.
After the rain over the last few days all the knapweed plants are now brown and mucky, good thing I took the photo when I did.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
After the rain over the last few days all the knapweed plants are now brown and mucky, good thing I took the photo when I did.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
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I'm sure Constable Knapweed was a character in the children's TV programme, the one with Dill the Dog. I can hear him singing his song! Was it called 'the herbs'?
ReplyDeleteYes, he even had his own song about "keeping law and order in the garden border"!
DeleteA weed is a flower growing where you don't want it, or so my Great Grandfather maintained. Even a rose can be a weed if you don't like it's position.
ReplyDeleteF fully agrees with your great grandfather. What's the difference between wildflower and weed anyway?
DeleteI have a small wildflower patch in my quite small garden and although all the other flowers I have here are bee or butterfly friendly, it’s lovely to see a little patch of what others may see as weeds. In my mind a weed is only a plant you don’t want growing where it is. My daughter loved the flower fairies when she was growing up and the verses are lovely:)
ReplyDeleteWell, a wild flower in my eyes and a very useful one where bees are concerned. I would encourage it if it grew here (which it doesn't!)
ReplyDeleteWildflower. Some of the most beautiful weeds are flowers. Where I walk each day the field is left to grow naturally as it's a nature preserve. There are so many beautiful flowers (whose names I sadly do not know) but there are also lots of birds hiding in the grasses and flowers. Truly wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI always think of Knapweed as a thistle and a weed although it looks very beautiful when out in flower. I have knapweed on the lawn where I have left it to grow wild and like you say, it hasn't liked the rain.
ReplyDeleteLike Rachel, I always think of Knapweed as being in the thistle family - it is a lovely flower and I would welcome it into my garden.
ReplyDeleteIt's also not unlike cornflowers in many ways too.
ReplyDeleteA new one on me. We have loads of Thistles. I shall go and have a closer look.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to have met the Greater Knapweed Fairy.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful words. x
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