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lorraine40
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Please can anyone tell me what these are
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lorraine40
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lorraine40
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teasle. Native wildflower, so up to you if it's a weed or not.
Sp. Hosta. I think it is Teasel.!
Being a pedant, I know.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
tee hee. You spotted my deliberate mistake punkdoc.
Thanks for that I will leave them be then as the bottom of my garden is quiet wild, and they do look quiet nice
Be extremely careful if you find yourself hands on with teasle. The barbed thorns have got the better of me on occassions
Ha Muddle up! I was going to say that but at 29 I didn't want to give my age away.
A friend of mine is into her traditional crafts and she actually does that with teasels. Her father made her a spinning wheel and she gathers wool from barbed wire and hedges. She sits for hours in the evenings combing wool and spinning it. She even made a jumper for a lady who collected the "wool" from her dogs!!!
I think they still use teasel brushes for billiard table cloth.
Isn't there a garden at Chelsea this year with lots of plants used to produce dyes and a tapestry style backdrop made from wool dyed with said plants?
Quite on-trend Muddle-Up
A friend has a jumper made from spun cat fur
As an owner of two lab crosses I could go into business!!!!
When you cut down the teasel stems, they are hollow. I have stuffed lengths into a plastic bottle with the top cut off. I put them in the bug hotel.