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)
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| Back/Midground: Rosebay Willowherb Foreground: Greater Willowherb -just coming out (See lower for closerups) |
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| Drinking chocolate with marshmallow |
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| The leaves of Broad-leaved Willowherb are wide near the base |
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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. |
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| Here is a close up of Greater Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutm |
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Which is also growing beside the Mill Pool near the Locks at Langcliffe  It also has four stigmas |
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