tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post3720100095033601013..comments2024-03-27T21:49:28.793+00:00Comments on A Yorkshire Memoir: I’m Not A FoxgloveTasker Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-19204885135581806342021-06-29T10:45:40.547+01:002021-06-29T10:45:40.547+01:00Correct. Very tough but soft leaves used as insole...Correct. Very tough but soft leaves used as insoles. Might help prevent your walking boots becoming too smelly. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-74750301803933207912021-06-29T10:16:37.246+01:002021-06-29T10:16:37.246+01:00Verbascum thapsus - common mullein. Some Native Am...Verbascum thapsus - common mullein. Some Native Americans lined their mocassins with leaves from the plant to keep out the cold so you could try putting some in your wellies this wintertime. I understand that the plant attracts a lot of insects which may or may not be a good thing.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-86157819255808282262021-06-29T09:09:41.547+01:002021-06-29T09:09:41.547+01:00It must have looked spectacular. It must have looked spectacular. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-46686024227915855872021-06-29T06:16:06.570+01:002021-06-29T06:16:06.570+01:00They grew wild on the hills around the old Central...They grew wild on the hills around the old Central Otago goldfields - as did a profusion of foxgloves (and opium poppies incidentally). Colourful in summer.Tigger's Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829665785202495073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-3679414231047667892021-06-28T17:21:10.399+01:002021-06-28T17:21:10.399+01:00I did indeed gather you were cryptically saying yo...I did indeed gather you were cryptically saying you knew. Those walking sticks were pretty powerful - parting the Red Sea and turning into serpents etc. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-85614609680694538122021-06-28T15:36:39.663+01:002021-06-28T15:36:39.663+01:00I assumed you understood that from my cryptic comm...I assumed you understood that from my cryptic comment. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-63761534098731869062021-06-28T15:35:12.968+01:002021-06-28T15:35:12.968+01:00I avoided saying Aarons Rod so early on in the com...I avoided saying Aarons Rod so early on in the comments. Aaron and Moses were protected from the Egyptian Plagues along with the Israelites as they led them out of Egypt with the rod.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-57443692179651802662021-06-28T10:42:37.245+01:002021-06-28T10:42:37.245+01:00For others - Sarah's joyful and uplifting Kitc...For others - Sarah's joyful and uplifting Kitchen Herbwife blog has other content like this, with recipes. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-76787520302016504892021-06-28T10:35:35.828+01:002021-06-28T10:35:35.828+01:00We like to grow wild flowers, keep a wild patch in...We like to grow wild flowers, keep a wild patch in the garden and let clover flower on the lawn to encourage bees and other insects, and it also brings frogs and hedgehogs too. I'm not a fan of pristine gardens where everything is chooped back and kept in its place. The yellow is Greater Mullein (see response to first comment) and the others, as I'm sure you know, foxgloves. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-71790952784030094192021-06-28T10:33:00.423+01:002021-06-28T10:33:00.423+01:00Greater Mullein - see response to first comment. W...Greater Mullein - see response to first comment. Weaver also says her foxgloves are beautiful this year. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-76830811738850229682021-06-28T10:32:15.680+01:002021-06-28T10:32:15.680+01:00It was to me. Had to look it up. For ID see respon...It was to me. Had to look it up. For ID see response to first comment.Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-45540186929469131292021-06-28T10:31:33.454+01:002021-06-28T10:31:33.454+01:00Thank you for visiting and commenting, Sarah. It&#...Thank you for visiting and commenting, Sarah. It's reassuring that our knowledge of natural remedies is not lost to all of us. Reading around, it really does have a lot of uses. It's a privilege to have it. Will try to collect seeds for next year. As regards wiping material, see response to Thelma 3 above. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-20515538990238342412021-06-28T10:26:42.362+01:002021-06-28T10:26:42.362+01:00Spot on. See response to first comment.Spot on. See response to first comment.Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-44742320578540760772021-06-28T10:26:29.678+01:002021-06-28T10:26:29.678+01:00It is. We hope to collect the seeds. ID in respons...It is. We hope to collect the seeds. ID in response to first comment. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-53770306116506206362021-06-28T10:25:37.270+01:002021-06-28T10:25:37.270+01:00Correct. See response to first comment. It appears...Correct. See response to first comment. It appears to have a large number of uses including natural toilet paper, but as one of it's other properties is Quaker Rouge - to irritate and thereby redden the cheeks of women not allowed to use makeup - I'll give that a miss. It might also irritate and redden other cheeks too. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-86178081057368162632021-06-28T10:22:09.999+01:002021-06-28T10:22:09.999+01:00See response to first comment.See response to first comment.Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-58011049198474096972021-06-28T10:21:26.779+01:002021-06-28T10:21:26.779+01:00You were quick off the mark. We're fairly sure...You were quick off the mark. We're fairly sure it's Greater Mullein (Verbascus thapsus), otherwise known as Aaron's Rod and lots of other names. We had to look it up. I wish I'd paid more attention to wild plants when I was little, so I didn't need to. I admire people who can identify these things on sight - you and lots of others below. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-29007662701401508772021-06-28T06:47:10.949+01:002021-06-28T06:47:10.949+01:00No matter what they are named and what they are go...No matter what they are named and what they are good for, all the flowers you show us here look gorgeous and are, I assume, providing food for bees and other insects as well.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-66877585239886722432021-06-28T04:09:04.657+01:002021-06-28T04:09:04.657+01:00Your foxgloves are gorgeous! The other is beautifu...Your foxgloves are gorgeous! The other is beautiful as well but I don't recognize it.Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17738727252267659979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-6657905690464710912021-06-27T23:47:06.735+01:002021-06-27T23:47:06.735+01:00Unfamiliar to me and quite an interesting plant.Unfamiliar to me and quite an interesting plant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-53576871866149842872021-06-27T23:36:32.738+01:002021-06-27T23:36:32.738+01:00Mullein is one of our best respiratory herbs. If y...Mullein is one of our best respiratory herbs. If you have a deep-seated lung infection with lots of gunge, mullein will act as an expectorant. You take it as a tea from the leaves, making sure to filter all the tiny hairs, which can be an irritant. The flowers make a wonderful earache remedy. I usually infuse them in oil together with flowers from St John's wort -lots of anti-bacterial goodness. They are a bi-annual and the first year floret and roots can be tinctured to help re-align the spine, especially where there is a slipped disc. Mullein usually grows wild on the edge of fields in full sunshine. I had some appear one year in my suburban garden and now they are frequent visitors. They can be prey to the mullein moth caterpillars, which chew up all the leaves with only fragments remaining. In the days before paper, mullein leaves were prized as wiping material in the privy or out of doors.Sarah Headhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08975928642943693605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-72154247085660092972021-06-27T22:39:29.780+01:002021-06-27T22:39:29.780+01:00I can only think it is mullein. My foxgloves are ...I can only think it is mullein. My foxgloves are good this year too it must be a good year for them.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-2908974139974168222021-06-27T17:48:57.272+01:002021-06-27T17:48:57.272+01:00Well, whatever it is the flowers are very pretty.Well, whatever it is the flowers are very pretty.JayCeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373622852406554111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-88254769626896614922021-06-27T17:14:50.853+01:002021-06-27T17:14:50.853+01:00Odysseus protected himself from the enchantress Ci...Odysseus protected himself from the enchantress Circe by consuming a herb called “moly”. According to one of our herb books it may have been this (although other sources suggest that moly could have been snowdrops, in which case it won't help us).<br />Lambs Ear looks interesting too. The flowers should identify it. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-12992953694712695832021-06-27T17:12:13.706+01:002021-06-27T17:12:13.706+01:00The foxgloves are fantastic this year. ID to follo...The foxgloves are fantastic this year. ID to follow. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.com