July 22, 1982 - Queen Anne's LaceSECOND SECTION
The Suffolk TiMC5
Queen Anne's Lace
Six years ago this week our daughter
was married in the backyard by the big
pine tree. The baskets of flowers for the
wedding were wildflowers, predominantly
made up of Queen Anne's lace. This
showy member of the carrot family is
found just about every*here. Once
started, there is no stopping it and often
you'll see it take over an entire field. Yet
I've even seen it squeezing up in between
cracks in the pavement along the
highways. Later on as the flower matures,
it curls up into a nest -like shape that will
dry and stand erect for months ahead.
Many collect these dry heads with their
tough stout stems for winter dried
bouquets.
It's a shame more people don't pick
these handsome umbrellas for their tables.
They do quite well after being picked and
keep their shape a long time. Alone or
mixed in with a bouquet, you can't go
wrong with Queen Anne's lace.
This plant, like most of our summer
roadside flowers, originated in Europe but
now it is so widely spread throughout our
land that like the people who immigrated
to this great country of ours, it has become
a citizen and accepted as a wildflower.
Probably the next most noticeable
flower along our highways at this time of
year is the tall blue chicory. Here today
and gone tomorrow is the true nature of
this vigorous plant. Another visitor from
across the sea, it is used in many ways by
many people. In some countries the leaves
are eaten in salads, while in others the
roots are dried and ground to be mixed
with coffee. As a matter of fact, our stores
right now sell a blend of coffee with
chicory.
New Blossoms Each Day
To me, the new flowers each day prove
again the wonders of our world. The long
carrot -like tap roots reach deep into the
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earth to provide moisture to the hottest
and driest of days. Day after day, flowers
come and go in what seems to be a never -
ending procession of bloom. By evening
the flowers have died back and the seeds
will start to develop. As summer moves on
and the hot weather dries the ripened
seeds, they become ready to scatter. Some
are eaten by birds and animals and soon
pass through their bodies to be sown in
another man's field. Others travel but a
few feet, but all will be part of next years
planting.
Nature has a way of making sure the
plants we call weeds will be around year
after year. Never do you find a weed seed
being single or in small numbers. Weed
seeds are .heavily laden and have
remarkable abilities of distribution. Ever
blow the down from a thistle, or a
dandelion or a milkweed?
I believe it was Emerson who said that a
weed is merely a flower whose virtues
have not yet been discovered. Perhaps our
philosophy should be that weeds are here to
stay and we might as well start to
appreciate them. Surely they are not going
away. They'll be along our roadsides no
matter how hard the highway department
tries to eliminate them and surely they'll
be in my garden where I, too, will try to
weed them out, but with a more
understanding attitude.
PAULSTOUTENBURGH
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85 EAST MAIN STREET, RIVERHEAD
• 727 -9824
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JULY 22,1982
QUEEN ANNE'S LACE -- Sometimes overlooked, the wildflowers of our
fields and roadsides picked and put in a bouquet often rival the best of
cultivated flowers. Photo by Paul Stoutenburgh
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