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August 14, 2005
Rosebay willow weed
Here in the Trossachs the roadsides are lined with a tall magenta-coloured wild flower called rosebay willow weed or herb (Epilobium angustifolium). It’s known as fireweed in the States because it grows on sites with a lot of wood ash. It was also celebrated for taking over blitzed bomb sites in London during and after the war.
It’s indigenous. I don’t remember seeing so much of it in previous years and I don’t know whether it’s so common in the south.
www.wssa.net/photo&info/larrymitich_info/fireweed.html
Posted by Simon Holledge at August 14, 2005 01:10 AM
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Everything and everyone is common in the south.
Posted by: Vicus Scurra at August 14, 2005 08:40 AM
Prolific, perhaps? Let's see some pictures on your site!
Posted by: Simon Holledge at August 14, 2005 11:47 AM
Aha - Simon. I've tracked you back. In answer to your question, all 10 are currently sitting in a plastic trough, being kept moist, until the idiotic rubbish removal men come and remove my rubble from what was the front forecourt of my house but is soon to be the New New Forest. Do you want photographic proof?!
Posted by: The Merkin at August 16, 2005 03:44 PM
. . .Difficult life when you are a pro-muslims lefty...
[Ed. Cut. Imp, next time you comment about Muslims on an completely irrelevant entry, I regret I will have to delete it.]
Posted by: ImperialMission at August 16, 2005 08:01 PM
hi there, does anyone know whether willow weed is toxic to cattle and if so in what way.
Posted by: jane at April 6, 2006 10:56 PM