When I was a child we knew it as Jack in the Pulpit - one of my favourite wild flowers - I know spring is coming when I see the first shoots pushing up through the earth.
Like nutcutlet, when I took over 'temporary stewardship' of this once overgrown patch, there was one growing in a corner, so I looked after it, having a penchant for wild flowers. Now I find it everywhere, despite always disposing of the red spikes of seeds before they went soft and start to fall. Like celandine, once you have this, you have it forever!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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Arum maculatum, aka lords and ladies, jack in the pulpit and many others
In the sticks near Peterborough
thank you, dad said it was poisonous but couldn't remember the name.
He's right Peanuts.
In the sticks near Peterborough
When I was a child we knew it as Jack in the Pulpit - one of my favourite wild flowers - I know spring is coming when I see the first shoots pushing up through the earth.
A fascinating plant which traps insects in order to pollinate itself and produce its beautiful scarlet berries http://stewkley.org/wildlife/flowers/flw.cuckoopint.htm
As children we were told it was poisonous and it's so easily identifiable, even to a child, so we never ever touched it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have lots
lots and lots
When we arrived at our overgrown jungle there were a few wild plants I didn't want to lose. This one and figwort amongst them. So I nurtured them.
As we cleared the jungle years of seeds started germinating
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have the both the variegated one - arum italicum and the wild one - one I planted and one that planted itself!
Those variegated ones get about a bit as well don't they
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, the birds spread them around!!
Like nutcutlet, when I took over 'temporary stewardship' of this once overgrown patch, there was one growing in a corner, so I looked after it, having a penchant for wild flowers. Now I find it everywhere, despite always disposing of the red spikes of seeds before they went soft and start to fall. Like celandine, once you have this, you have it forever!