ANOTHER GORGEOUS DAY
A NICE SUMMER BOUQUETTuesday, 7:15 AM. 62 degrees, wind W, light. The sky is partly cloudy and the barometer predicts clear weather. The dew is very heavy this morning.
Summer is truly here when the tansies and the fireweed bloom. Tansy, Tanecetum vulgare, is naturalized everywhere in the northland. It is tall, spreading, with yellow flower heads and a pungent odor. The British call it “buttons”. It has had many herbal and folkloric uses in the past.
The native fireweed (genus Epilobium, of which there are many species), so called because it often proliferates after a forest fire, is tall with a distinctive mauve flower head.
The white flowered yarrow, of which there are also many species, a few of which are native, has been described earlier. Many of the garden varieties are yellow.
All together they make a nice summer bouquet.
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