Shasta Daisies
Botanical Name: Campanula carpatica
Common Name: Bellflower, Harebell or Canterbury Bells
Sweet William attracts butterflies
Chicory and Day Lilies
Chicory is an herb and considered a weed by some gardeners, however, I like to see them interspersed among the perennial flowers. They are beautiful to the eye and the color is magnificent.
Chicory
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a bushy perennial herb with blue, lavender, or occasionally white flowers. It grows as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia. Common chicory is also known as blue sailors, succory, and coffee weed.
Herbal use
Chicory (especially the flower) was used as a treatment in Germany, and is recorded in many books as an ancient German treatment for everyday ailments. It is variously used as a tonic and appetite stimulant, and as a treatment for gallstones, gastro-enteritis, sinus problems and cuts and bruises.
The chicory flower is often seen as inspiration for the Romantic concept of the Blue Flower.
Chicory and Day Lily
photos by peacesojourner
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