There are quite a few of these beautiful silvery plants growing by the tracks, in the farmyards and paths that we walk along and through with the two terriers on their multiple daily rambles. Eventually they produce a flower stem up to four feet tall smothered in small yellow flowers that the bees and other insects adore.
The plants cling on and grow brilliantly in the small cracks in concrete and the points where walls meet concrete or paved areas. Strangely early in the morning even if everything is dry with no dew or rain apparent the hairy leaves always seem to be covered in beads of water.
This must be a plant for the survival handbook and we need to find out what it is called. A quick memo to myself to photograph the flowers because someone out in the far flung reaches of the blogosphere will probably know the name and family.
Possibly look at Mullein common here in the US midwest
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, Thanks for that I'll look it up. Best wishes, John
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, bang-on. Yellow flowers and grows up to six foot six inches. Thank you. All the best, John
ReplyDeleteSpot on! Verbascum, one of my favourites - never ceases to amaze me where it grows, as you say TT in any nook and cranny! TTFN Dickie
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ReplyDeleteMarvellus plants, I first saw them on the old railway line on the Mawdach estuary in Wales. John