My garden is full of nettles, but not all the stinging variety.
Here are some pics of a few of the huge variety of ornamental and "Dead" nettles scattered liberally around.
The bees love them, They fill spaces where little else would grow and cover bare earth to give a luscious feel even to the broken wall of my compost heap!
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| Just at their peak of flowers, which, for a humble nettle look remarkably exotic - almost orchid like. |
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| These are already past best, but have provided a symphony of buzzing bumble and honey bees |
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| This one is rather easy to confuse with the stinging variety. I'm not sure it would make such good soup! It gives a lovely understated highlight of white among the colours elsewhere. |
i love the yellow archangel, even though in Washington?? it is described as a noxious weed i have always thought it rather pretty. Lamier jaune as it known over here
ReplyDeleteWe had nettle pizza after Ashley's graduation in DC. They were actually quite delicious. Who knew?
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