Found at the bottom of the garden with the old saying “How the hell did that get there and what is it?”. We had no idea until we took a picture and fed it in plant.id and the result was Raphanus raphanistrum, “You what?” you ask. It’s more commingly also known as wild radish. We’ve no idea how it got there but it’s staying!
Did you know the pods are edible? Thanks to www.thekitchn.com
“Wild radish pods are crisp and peppery, much like the root of a true radish, and can be eaten raw or cooked. Young, tender pods are the most delicious and can be easily harvested by running your hand up the stalk to release a handful of pods.”
You learn something new every day!
The other weekend we purchased a pink “dandelion” from an open garden in Blackheath. We didn’t think they even existed! The strawberry is there for comparison, that is a moderately sized strawberry by the way. More on different colour ones
Thanks again to Mike & Julia for sending us some photographs today, the first (above) is a wonderful poppy in situ and the second (below) a self-seeded one in the pavement that they are going to leave to flower which sounds like a good idea. It looks as Mike says “It’s going to be a corker!” Love the photo intruder in the top left corner by the way. Too good to leave out.
Above are some self seeded poppies in the kale/pea lane in our veg patch at the bottom of the garden that we can’t bring ourselves to pull out. As we’re in the veg patch, here’s a picture below of our results of our beetroot sowing this year, there’s hardly any!
Thanks to Mike & Julia from near Coventry for a couple of pictures from their garden. Plant ID is giving the above as clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata). Looks brilliant!
Often short-lived, the flowers of the poppy are something to behold as they say. We took a trip down the garden this morning and took a couple of photographs and the two at the top are now missing a few petals, it’s a case of catch them when you can!
Weeds up to me knees 