The Beauty in a Weed
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The beauty in a weed on our farm under the snowy Pisa Range. I’ve recently been fossicking around the farm, finding 15 weeds to ‘identify’ as part of an assignment. I quite like these Verbascum virgatum, aka twiggy or wand or moth mullein. They have a cute yellow flower in summer, and can get so tall, and like the stony, dry soils of Central Otago...