It was then the designers were experimenting with using
cow parsley to make fabric.
Umbellifers such as fennel, dill, angelica, parsley, sweet cicely,
cow parsley and anthriscus are all ideal and make great companion plants for the veg plot.
| How to spot giant hogweed Giant hogweed is a member of the carrot family and relative of
cow parsley. It has a thick bristly stem and forms a rosette of jagged, lobed leaves in the first year before sending up a flower spike in the second year.
COW PARSLEY (ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS)
COW parsley is a native wild plant that fills the roadside verges from April to June and provides wonderful nectar for bees, hoverflies and moths.
COW PARSLEY (ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS)
COW parsley is a native have in mine
COW parsley is a native wild plant that fills the roadside verges from April to June and provides wonderful nectar for bees, hoverflies and moths.
COW PARSLEY (ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS) have in mine this year.
PLANT OF THE WEEK
COW PARSLEY (ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS)
Cow parsley is a native wild plant that fills the roadside verges from April to June and provides wonderful nectar for bees, hoverflies and moths.
Wild flowers, such as
cow parsley, are a magnet for flying insects, while tall umbels such as Angelica gigas are attractive to hoverflies and wasps, and herbs also have accessible flowers.
They won't all like division - for example, those with a tap root like a carrot, such as the
cow parsley. When replanting divisions, give them a good soak and keep well watered to help them establish.
I observed roadside verges full of
cow parsley, which has long been a favourite of show garden designers at this time of year.
But if you are a follower of fashion then you must also grow bishop's flower, which looks like a more delicate form of
cow parsley, and the black cornflower, Centaurea cyanus 'Black Ball'.
As the lorry turned from Pixie Lane at the start of the journey, the ditches and verges effervesced with
cow parsley, wave after wave of it rolling along the hedgerows.
cow parsley - coarse erect biennial Old World herb introduced as a weed in eastern North America