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There is plenty of joy to be extracted from the weeds in the garden and after an hour or two removing this one
there is also plenty of smelly sap to be extracted from the clothes. What a pretty reason to inspire thanks for a washing machine. The BSBI say: "A perennial herb, with long creeping rhizomes, found in woods, hedgerows, the banks of rivers and streams, rough grassland and waste places, and, locally, as a persistent garden weed. It characteristically grows in moist, fertile, mildly acidic to basic soils in disturbed or lightly to moderately shaded sites. It spreads by vigorous rhizomatous extension and by seed. 0–500 m (above Malham, Mid-west Yorkshire), with an exceptional record at 845 m on Great Dun Fell (Westmorland)." The Flora of Cornwall says: "Hedge Woundwort is common and widespread, growing along hedgebanks, on waste ground, in scrub, along road verges, by ditches and in woodland. It is scarce on Bodmin Moor and in the china clay area (SX05 & SW95), and is rare on the Isles of Scilly." |
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| 9th July 2011 | ||