Jack Go To Bed At Noon
Last year this rather exotic looking flower appeared on mine and several other allotments for the first time. Having been stumped (again) by Mr Allotment Warden as to its identity, I rushed home to find out what it was. It's salsify, aka the marvellous Jack Go To Bed At Noon - named as such because its flowers always close by midday. Here you can see both open and closed flowers - making it seem even more exotic and alien than in the first picture. I think this must be the cultivated version because the flower in my Francis Rose Wild Flower Key looks exactly the same in form, but is bright yellow in colour and called meadow salsify . Its other common name is Goatsbeard, which must be a nod to the fantastic dandelion-like clock which forms the seed head. With 'parachutes' like those shown above, who knows how far our plotted plants came from. I rather like the photographic dissection of the seedhead found in this link . Salsify is edible: its lateral shoots and fl...
That is a very fancy shed!
ReplyDeleteI could live in that shed, well once the roof is fixed, it is very grand. A living roof please. x
ReplyDeleteWhew-it was either freakily windy down there or that squirrel has been busy!! I like toe sound of the living roof too...
ReplyDeletesee you tomorrow.
I'm just a teeny bit envious looking at that rather palatial shed!
ReplyDeleteI just called my husband in here to look at your shed. With any luck I may get one like it.
ReplyDeleteThat's just about the prettiest shed I've ever seen!
ReplyDeleteI vote for the living roof. It is a gorgeous shed ... it looks as if there was a busy critter working on the roof during that night!
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely shed that is. Almost too nice for a shed
ReplyDeleteThe winds must have got up down there to do that damage - what a shame. Hope that it's soon patched up - another vote here for a living roof !
ReplyDeleteHi - glad you like our shed. We bought it from 'Shed World' in Bristol (I kid you not), where it's described as a Summerhouse. We just call it a 'Shed with windows'. I do have my potting bench in there...
ReplyDeleteaunt debbi - hope you get your heart's desire :)
I see the living roof's the winner :)