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Okavanga β€” Rosebay Willowherb ( Chamaenerion augustifolum)

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Published: 2019-07-17 10:35:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 193; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 0
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Description A Walk on the Wild SideDedication: This Journal is for my very good friend M, 33M, whose support by way of insightful comments and discussions has been one of the best things to have happened here on DA for quite sometime. Her own art is stunning, varied, thought provoking and some of the very best I have encountered on DA. She is having a little local difficulty at the moment, but hopefully all will be resolved successfully in a week or so. In the meantime, this tribute to her features lots of wild flowers near to my new home and I know M just loves flowers!
Here's to you, M.
We took a stroll Sunday along the top of the Bay, that is Auchencairn Bay, one of severalΒ  cutting inland from the Solway Firth. We simply walked out of the gate at the bottom of our garden, strolled across the cow meadow, hopped over the Hass Burn and meandered along the overgrown footpath. The image below shows the view back, the line of the path being roughly the hedge rows that you can see on the right hand side, mid pict
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33M [2019-08-08 02:34:23 +0000 UTC]

now this is quite different and beautiful David, willowherb, will have to look up how to grow these

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Okavanga In reply to 33M [2019-08-08 07:07:46 +0000 UTC]

Beware, M, they take over from other plants and become difficult to control. Their seeds spread like dandelions ans go everywhere.

Many Thanks

David

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LindArtz [2019-07-17 19:20:01 +0000 UTC]

I would not mind at All having such beauties gracing the area in which I live! !! !!

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Okavanga In reply to LindArtz [2019-07-18 06:34:57 +0000 UTC]

In a month or so were you to live here, Linda, you might change your mind about that! The problem is that while an attractive plant, it spreads like mad and there is no effective control other than pulling it up.

Many Thanks

David

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LindArtz In reply to Okavanga [2019-07-18 20:35:28 +0000 UTC]

Why would that bother anyone? Β  Β I'd think the spreading of such beauty would be welcomed. (I certainly would welcome it. !! !!!! )

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Okavanga In reply to LindArtz [2019-07-19 06:43:11 +0000 UTC]

Good question, Linda, why does something that appears beautiful become, at least for some people, an object of dislike or at the least an object to ignore? There are several reasons, I guess, one being familiarity. With respect to this plant, there is another problem in that because it spreads so easily it is found everywhere including places such as railway embankments, waste ground, unkempt gardens, on top of buildings, inside hedge rows, and on and on. I think that the "beauty" associations get out weighed by the "ugly" situations. Couple that with the infamous seed spreads and some people find rosebay willowherb a problem not a plant of beauty.Β 

David

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LindArtz In reply to Okavanga [2019-07-19 12:31:01 +0000 UTC]

It could always be worse, David. Β 

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