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mrsnesbitt



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 06 12:45 pm    Post subject: Plant Identification Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 06 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Some type of celandine?

 
sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 06 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

lesser celandine I think

 
mrsnesbitt



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 06 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 06 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Sat May 06, 06 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 06 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 06 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We have some of this in the lawn - we always refer to it as the Creeping Christ-Knows-What

 
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