Comments on: Winter Weeds: Queen Anne’s Lace http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/12/22/winter-weeds-queen-annes-lace/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Sat, 18 May 2013 21:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mary Ann Pike http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/12/22/winter-weeds-queen-annes-lace/comment-page-1/#comment-12002 Mary Ann Pike Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:41:27 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=29059#comment-12002 I’m not fond of Queen Anne’s Lace when it gets into your garden because it seeds like mad and can take over (it’s growing all through my lawn now since I don’t use weed killers on a regular bases). This year I finally figured out what Poison Hemlock was….there was something growing all over the hillside below the office building I work in, and also along the Montour Trail (bike trail). I was wondering if the plant was Cow Parsnip or (a bigger concern) Russian Hogweed, but I after consulting my various native plant references, I decided it was Poison Hemlock. I’m not really fond of any of the plants in the Parsley family since most of them spread pretty aggressively.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/12/22/winter-weeds-queen-annes-lace/comment-page-1/#comment-12000 Kathy Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:15:48 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=29059#comment-12000 When my kids were little (44 and 41 now) they used to bring bunches of Queen Anne’s Lace back to me. I would separate them into 4 different glasses of water to which I had added food coloring and keep some of the white ones out. “Magically” in about 4 minutes the flowers would change color. My sons would get so excited. Then we would put the flowers in one vase with the white ones in the middle.

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