Today, for the first time, in spite of the plant being present in various places on Boggy Brae for several years, rosebay willowherb has produced a flower. It seems that the marguerite patch in which it was growing has protected it from deer munchings. The garden has several other willowherbs: broad-leaved, great, marsh and square-stalked as well as Upland Enchanter's Nightshade and New Zealand Willowherb. I like them all, not least for their dance-like seed chucking abandon.
Till today the plants tended to look like this:
Today I found this:
Yay!
Down by the shore road there are field banks of this 'fire weed'. I love it.
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