Downy Burdock, Göteborg, July 17th, 2001
Biting Stonecrop
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The Stonecrop also got its share of today's trimming of hedges and borders: my categorization of what escapes outside the stone borders of cultivated patches as a weed was confirmed by the worker who took a spade to them and left them to dry.
Surprising how long the Burdock has been left to grow tall, right at the corner of the hedge, near the seven blue recycling boxes. I have watched (and taken pictures of) the same plant featured in May, and seen it grow to reach my chin. Two days ago, when I last took pictures of it, it reached the tip of my nose. Well, I'm fairly short... but anyway.
But of course it was too much to hope for negligence the full lifespan of a Burdock. Today there were the ruins of a proud Burdock for my camera to record.
(They're still there on July 26th)
Inside that border I take it as a cultivated plant, but in order to get a flower to show you I had to extend my hand across that crucial line. (Oh, well, at a second look I see some diligent weeder has been over them with a cutter inside that border as well).
Oh, and it wasn't just the Burdock that bit the dust today. The Kidney Vetch of yesterday. The Harebells of two days ago:
off with their heads!!
