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mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Thu May 04, 06 12:45 pm Post subject: Plant Identification
I am in the process of trying to get our garden sorted. This is growing in our paddock...any ideas please? It looks rather nice! D

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu May 04, 06 12:45 pm Post subject:
Some type of celandine?

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Thu May 04, 06 12:46 pm Post subject:
lesser celandine I think

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Thu May 04, 06 12:50 pm Post subject:
Oh thanks girls. This has helped me a great deal. I am hoping to plant a wild flower meadow just near to it, so I think it will fit in very nicely. Dxx

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu May 04, 06 1:36 pm Post subject:
Hmmm... Celandine. The flowers make a wonderful adornment to salads. I grow three varieties, the common wild one, a white flowered-slightly silver leaved one, and my favourite, a yellow flowered red leaved variety, called 'brazen hussy'. The red, heart shaped leaves are just adorable in a salad.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat May 06, 06 7:40 am Post subject:
At last: someone else who grows Brazen Hussey. We also have a double yellow and a wonderful oddity that looks like double green flowers but actually has almost no petals: the 'double' bits are sepals. It's fascinating. Never tried eating them...

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon May 08, 06 9:17 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Never tried eating them...

They don't taste of much, but the flowers (and red heart shaped leaves of Brazen Hussy) look wonderful.

Apparently (according to Wildfood Junkie) if you dig up the tubers, clean them off and fry them (I think she said fry them) they're really tasty.

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Mon May 08, 06 9:18 am Post subject:
We have some of this in the lawn - we always refer to it as the Creeping Christ-Knows-What

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