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Monday Morning Mystery 080111
The inimitable Edith Wallace kindly has sent us some Monday Morning Mysteries. Here's her first.
This weed covering the Wild Bergamot is one of Tom Burr's faves. Looks like really bad spaghetti. What is it?
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Ah, yes — the Dodder that ate the Celery Farm! (in all its pernicious parasitic pulchritude) Fascinating, and it probably won’t eat the whole farm.
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Looks like dodder weed. I had that growing in some coreopsis this year!
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Tom Burr
Ah, yes — the Dodder that ate the Celery Farm! (in all its pernicious parasitic pulchritude) Fascinating, and it probably won’t eat the whole farm.
Peggy Woods
Looks like dodder weed. I had that growing in some coreopsis this year!