#loosestrife — Public Fediverse posts

Last week we were enjoying a few days of sunny, dry, hot and #summery weather. What else can you do but sit lazily in the #shade of a big tree?
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#summerWeather #artistsgarden #imperfectgarden #garden #lazy #gardenphotography #artist #wolfkettler #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #biodiversity #natural #naturalGarden
#weedgardening #weeds #wildflowers #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #pollinatorFriendly #Lythrum #loosestrife #selfSeeded

November 22, 1900
#OTD #Science & #Flowers: Study of the One Does Not Destroy
the Love of the Other (The Indianapolis News)

"[The #Botanist should] keep up the old names as well as the new.

We must always have our #SweetWilliam, #Kingcup, #SweetCicely, #Loosestrife, #Heartsease, Codlins-and-Creams, & #Feverfew.

All [these] #Names [have] #Stories. [Their] loss would be a loss to the #Language; their very mention turns thoughts to #Gardens & the pasture #Lands of #Summer gone but come again."