The Yellow Loose-strife plant in our garden started blooming at the start of June 2025. On 21st July 1906 Edith wrote:
‘I crossed the meadows to the bank of the little river; where the Purple Loose-strife or Long Purples was just coming into flower’.
She is in the Temple Balsall area at that point. As the loose-strife she sees is near the river, possibly in a more shaded/cooler area and causing it to bloom later than our yellow batch. Interestingly, the Latin name Lysimachia for this plant comes from 'King Lysimachus of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon. He used certain plants of this genus to calm agitated animals, in particular cattle'. It has also historically been used in other areas of medicine.
The background frame is based on an e-processed green brolly fabric.
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