Wednesday 15 July 2020

Settle Wildflowers - Day 57 - Red 11 - Pink - Willowherbs in Miss Victoria's Tea Garden

Visitors to, 
and Residents of, 
Settle 
will be raring to go to Miss Victoria's Refreshment Garden 
(also known as the bit of spare land outside Victoria Hall, Britain's longest running Music Hall).
Correction - World's Oldest Music Hall.

They will be going,

not for the delicious drinking chocolate with marshmallows and huge range of sandwiches including coronation chicken, egg mayonnaise..

not for the company of meeting other people on the lawn, sitting on comfortable chairs under the gazebos to shelter from the sun and in case of the rare (!?) showers we get at Settle

not for the chance to pick up lots of bargains at the sale of useful goods in the hall sold in aid of the Hall - a treasure-trove of vintage articles of the finest quality, (I picked up a copy of the sheet music of Carol Kings Tapestry songs to play on my accordion - thanks whoever donated it)


No .. they will be going to see today's three pink flowers:-

Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
Great Willowherb - or Codlins and Cream (Epilobium hirsutum)

Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum)

Back/Midground: Rosebay Willowherb
Foreground: Greater Willowherb -just coming out (See lower for closerups)



Drinking chocolate with marshmallow

The leaves of Broad-leaved Willowherb are wide near the base

Broad-leaved Willowherb - you may even have this prize plant as a weed in your garden. Note the way the style
 divides into four stigmas.


Here is a close up of Greater Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutm

Which is also growing beside the Mill Pool near 
the Locks at Langcliffe


It also has four stigmas






















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