A couple days ago, when some friends had dropped by, I looked out from the deck to the abandoned field next door. What is the purple-pink thing? An Aster I'd planted last year and forgotten about. There it is, happily doing its small part to brighten things up. I must plant a few more out in that field, from the many seedling that are growing at the Cottage. It's in a wild enough spot to count for Wildflower Wednesday, eh?
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| See it blooming, dead centre in the picture? |
In the "unweeded bed" by the deck, some native asters are fitting in quite nicely. Whenever I've thumbed the pages of "The Flora of Nova Scotia," or see some in the field, I think to myself I should study and get to know the Asters of my own province. Maybe next year.
Yeah, there's Goldenrod too. A spectacular weed in our yard - one I've not seen anywhere else, ever - is this Tansy. I guess it is a Tansy. All the others I've seen elsewhere are not so robust. I have some fancy-leaved Tansy in the "unweeded bed" that behaves itself a lot more than this stuff. These annual stems are quite woody, and it gets six feet fall or more. And the seedlings come up EVERYWHERE.
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| Tanacetum vulgare |
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| Prunella vulgaris |
The Heal-All, above, dots the lawn for much of the summer, and now fall. And the bit of Crown Vetch, below, blooms just as long, in a little patch along the driveway. It mounds up along the ground, and scrambles as far at it can up into the twiggy Choke Cherries.
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| Coronilla varia |
How wonderful it is to have weeds so nice at the end of September.
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Wonderful flowers highlighting the diversity! We have a lot of aster and goldenrod in Maine too.
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