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Plant of the Day

Saturday 6 May 2023

In a sheltered corner of the Marengo Garden, Orkney, the Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely, anise, garden myrrh, great chervil, sweet bracken, sweet fern, sweet Mary) is flowering. This umbellifer can be recognised by the occasional white splash on some of the leaves which are both sweet to the taste and have the flavour of aniseed.

Plant of the Day

Thursday 24 November 2022

This clump forming herbaceous perennial is probably Centaurea macrocephala (giant knapweed) which has fine yellow petals surrounded by shining brown papery scales. In the warm, wet autumn weather the seeds are germinating in the damp seed-heads.