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This reminds me of the other day on a walk with my wife

Her: Oh that's Queen Anne's lace! let me touch it maybe we can eat it

Me: No wait let me use iNaturalist app just in case

Her: *already touched it*

Me: -Scan- it's poison hemlock -_-

Her: Oop

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I learned a little bit more than I had before about Queen Anne's Lace while doing this post, Christin! Apparently they are part of the carrot family . Poisin Hemlock apparently has a hollow stem vs. the solid one of QAL. And QAL is/was used to create a natural yellow dye for wool.

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I've used onion skins for natural yellow dye. I make pickled onions for a couple of British friends, then use the onion skins to dye wool for another friend. Waste not, want not!

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This is really interesting! It is amazing how generations used natural products to create colour. My daughter used onion peels in her soup stock to deepen the colour.

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Sounds a bit like Wellington weather. We had a storm the weekend before last with torrential rain, and gale force winds (blew off one of the guttering from my house), a single digit celcius temperature. We then went back to more than 20 degrees celcius. It is meant to be Summer after all here. Queen Anne's lace looked a lot like elderflowers! I had to look it up before suggesting to you to make elderflower bubbly next time you see it :)

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Here I was complaining about the winds around me. Then I read about the O2 roof blowing off in London, and I was chastened!

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