I've been essentially away from LJ for a week, so how nice to be welcomed back by name! I know Queen Anne's lace from growing up in Oregon and seeing it growing picturesquely at the sides of country roads. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen it in a garden. My mother would ask my dad to pull over and let her out to pick some, so maybe that's where my fond association comes from.
But speaking of invasiveness... if anyone offers you Yellow Loosestrife, run!!! (I was given some one early spring, when the plants were hard to identify and I'd never heard of Yellow Loosestrife, and was told it was Bells of Ireland. Wrong!!!)
Oh, we have Purple Loosestrife here in New England, too! But it is seeding itself in roadways wihtout human help, as far as I can tell, and not allowing itself to be foisted off as harmless posies on hapless gardeners!
I must confess I am still confused about identifying it after my trip home this evening. The Queen Anne's Lace on the roadside is not nearly as leafy and jungly as the stuff invading my garden. And I do adore Queen Anne's Lace, it's so charming no matter how you look at it. So now I am perplexed because I am thinking I still might not know what's what out there. O.@
Gah! Spreading through misinformation is such a nasty mistake. I don't think I would know Yellow Loosestrife off-hand, sounds like another one I'd better become informed about. Eeep.
I also would like Bells of Ireland, I should have picked up a package of seeds a before we moved here, so I could discover if they can survive our tree of doom.
It catches my eye each and every time in the wild. I am perplexed though because I caught some glimpses of it on the way home again which I haven't for a while as the bus is a more scenic route than taking the car with Mister-road-angst. *chuckle*
The Quenn Anne's lace I noticed along the roadside was all bloom and barely any foliage, but the stuff in my garden is beig on the leafiness fator. So I am ~still~ not sure of which mystery plants have I. *confuddled*
Somewhere in the mess are definately dill/QAL type flower clusters in that parasol-like formation though... so perhaps I am not mistaken... just.don't.know. *shakes head*
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I've been essentially away from LJ for a week, so how nice to be welcomed back by name! I know Queen Anne's lace from growing up in Oregon and seeing it growing picturesquely at the sides of country roads. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen it in a garden. My mother would ask my dad to pull over and let her out to pick some, so maybe that's where my fond association comes from.
But speaking of invasiveness... if anyone offers you Yellow Loosestrife, run!!! (I was given some one early spring, when the plants were hard to identify and I'd never heard of Yellow Loosestrife, and was told it was Bells of Ireland. Wrong!!!)
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I must confess I am still confused about identifying it after my trip home this evening. The Queen Anne's Lace on the roadside is not nearly as leafy and jungly as the stuff invading my garden. And I do adore Queen Anne's Lace, it's so charming no matter how you look at it. So now I am perplexed because I am thinking I still might not know what's what out there. O.@
Gah! Spreading through misinformation is such a nasty mistake. I don't think I would know Yellow Loosestrife off-hand, sounds like another one I'd better become informed about. Eeep.
I also would like Bells of Ireland, I should have picked up a package of seeds a before we moved here, so I could discover if they can survive our tree of doom.
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The Quenn Anne's lace I noticed along the roadside was all bloom and barely any foliage, but the stuff in my garden is beig on the leafiness fator. So I am ~still~ not sure of which mystery plants have I. *confuddled*
Somewhere in the mess are definately dill/QAL type flower clusters in that parasol-like formation though... so perhaps I am not mistaken... just.don't.know. *shakes head*
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