The plant often called Groundsel could be noticed nearly anyplace, in lots of nations all over the world totally on cultivated floor or like this patch under on the highway edge.
It is a kind of vegetation that everybody is aware of however I believed I might discover out extra to fill a weblog put up!
Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) belongs to the Asteraceae household which additionally consists of dandelion, thistles and sunflower. It’s referred to as a ‘winter annual’ as a result of the seeds germinate from late autumn by to early spring, and considered one of it is different names is ‘old-man-in-the-spring’.
It is title comes from an Outdated English phrase grundeswilige which means ‘floor swallower’ because it grows profusely wherever it will get an opportunity.
We used to choose it for feeding to the budgie and to rabbits a few years in the past however it’s toxic to people but as soon as utilized in drugs as a purgative and a diuretic.
In nation folklore within the Fens it was thought it grew the place witches had stopped for a pee and when it grew on a thatched roof it marked the spot the place the witch had landed!
After all Cecily Mary Barker had a Flower Fairy and his tune for Groundsel.
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| The Tune of the Groundsel Fairy
If dicky-birds should purchase and promote |
I would forgotten we used to say ‘dicky-birds’ when speaking to young children!
Do you do not forget that option to entertain them “Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter one named Paul, fly away Peter, fly away Paul, come again Peter, come again Paul”. With bits of sticky paper caught on fingers with their names, hidden behind the again and reappearing with completely different fingers after which again with names once more……………….or is it simply me?
Humorous what writing a weblog put up made me bear in mind.
Again Tomorrow
Sue
