tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post6165892790952044544..comments2024-03-16T10:01:48.154-07:00Comments on Chronica Domus: Memories of Cow Parsley, Or Would That Be Queen Anne's Lace?Chronica Domushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-42398801330894719642017-06-27T13:53:32.919-07:002017-06-27T13:53:32.919-07:00It is!It is!Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-25978932581363391242017-06-27T06:03:20.551-07:002017-06-27T06:03:20.551-07:00Oh, very witty and probably quite right too.Oh, very witty and probably quite right too.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-77572439130873924532017-06-27T06:02:19.474-07:002017-06-27T06:02:19.474-07:00Hello Ann,
I had no idea of the story associated ...Hello Ann,<br /><br />I had no idea of the story associated with this plant. Very interesting indeed, thank you.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-72151438386080279762017-06-27T06:00:32.262-07:002017-06-27T06:00:32.262-07:00Hello Diogenese,
Carotte sauvage sounds just as c...Hello Diogenese,<br /><br />Carotte sauvage sounds just as charming a name as Queen Anne's Lace. I'm glad it reminds you of your youth too.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-85894790825974434882017-06-27T05:58:30.672-07:002017-06-27T05:58:30.672-07:00I adore honeysuckle and the plant I have in my own...I adore honeysuckle and the plant I have in my own garden was given to me by a dearly departed friend. <br /><br />Your tree house lookout sounds charming.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-69245795472008637762017-06-27T05:56:01.031-07:002017-06-27T05:56:01.031-07:00Hello Penelope Bianchi,
It may be poisonous, but ...Hello Penelope Bianchi,<br /><br />It may be poisonous, but it is certainly beautiful.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-81622036959415403202017-06-27T05:53:34.738-07:002017-06-27T05:53:34.738-07:00Hello slf,
The crock I arranged the Queen Anne...Hello slf,<br /><br />The crock I arranged the Queen Anne's Lace in was made, surprisingly to me, made by Royal Doulton. I say surprisingly as I was under the false impression that RD only made loftier wares.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-50517823227015035992017-06-27T05:47:49.379-07:002017-06-27T05:47:49.379-07:00Well, thank you racheld, it is nice to know I have...Well, thank you racheld, it is nice to know I have been honored with a new "wordy" title for my scribbles.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading your recollections of the milkman. I have many memories of his daily visits too during my youth.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-53518597035609586902017-06-27T05:36:50.739-07:002017-06-27T05:36:50.739-07:00Hello Jim,
Yes, would not like to mix up these tw...Hello Jim,<br /><br />Yes, would not like to mix up these two plants. I believe one is related to hemlock.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-62379805575571054542017-06-27T05:20:56.764-07:002017-06-27T05:20:56.764-07:00Hello Lisa,
I imagine there are far fewer empty l...Hello Lisa,<br /><br />I imagine there are far fewer empty lots about nowadays in Silicon Valley. Would have enjoyed a gander of the place before the high-tech explosion. Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-24382166877669065612017-06-26T22:44:24.355-07:002017-06-26T22:44:24.355-07:00Was the next word, childbirth?
Was the next word, childbirth?<br />Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-81870940941991268112017-06-26T20:43:53.378-07:002017-06-26T20:43:53.378-07:00I adore Queen Anne's Lace and have it in my ga...I adore Queen Anne's Lace and have it in my gardens. I love the story: Queen Anne was tatting white lace. (Tatting is the all-but-lost art of making lace by hand.) The beautiful white lace she was tatting became the white lacy flowers of the wild carrot plant. She pricked her finger and one drop of blood oozed out. This became the central dark red or purple sterile floret that is present on some, but not all, Queen Anne's Lace flowers.<br /><br />Legends disagree as to which Queen Anne was tatting such lovely lace. Some say it was Anne (1574 - 1619), the first Stuart Queen Anne, who was brought over from Denmark at fourteen years of age to be a Queen to King James of Scotland. Others argue it was Anne (1665 - 1714), the daughter of William and Mary, and the last monarch in the Stuart line. Both Annes died in Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09390522688788784395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-46946556387871708802017-06-26T16:00:15.612-07:002017-06-26T16:00:15.612-07:00Queens Anne's Lace used to be prolific in Penn...Queens Anne's Lace used to be prolific in Pennsylvania. It always reminds me of my youth. In France I believe this is Carotte Sauvage.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-43403736413168905142017-06-26T15:47:17.767-07:002017-06-26T15:47:17.767-07:00Honeysuckle always transports GSL back to a North ...Honeysuckle always transports GSL back to a North Carolina boyhood with fearless pup Bandit helping survey our kingdom atop treehouse lookout.<br />Official policy was NO GIRLS ALLOWED in treehouse but Bandit and I would have made Tip-Top Secret exception for you and Rachel.GSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903412564467078538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-63484534022508522452017-06-26T14:16:39.054-07:002017-06-26T14:16:39.054-07:00Interesting! We are next to a nature preserve tha...Interesting! We are next to a nature preserve that has tons of what I thought was Queen Anne's Lace; and I found out from a friend of mine with horses that it is, in fact, hemlock! Poisonous indeed!!!Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-65099091064922060352017-06-26T11:05:25.227-07:002017-06-26T11:05:25.227-07:00Queen Anne's Lace always transports me back to...Queen Anne's Lace always transports me back to New England summers. They grow with abandon by the side of the road and in empty lots. I absolutely love them! BTW I have an old earthenware crock very similar to yours.<br /><br />slfanonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06011845556672752198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-14284917401414553202017-06-26T09:56:55.084-07:002017-06-26T09:56:55.084-07:00Girl, you DO beat ALL!!! You hold the all-time t...Girl, you DO beat ALL!!! You hold the all-time title of the first person I've ever encountered using "dubiety" in a written sentence. I don't noticing that Miss Austen nor the Messrs. Dickens and Trollope ever utilized that word in all their elegant verbiage. <br /><br />I do love that fluffy, lacy stuff---our term for all and the both I suppose was Queen Anne's Lace, though having been of the milk-cow era for quite some time in my youth, I would have thought we'd have used the commoner, more farm-and-earth related term.<br /><br />We have quite a bit of it in a front flowerbed, due to my having pulled up each past year's plants when they were dried, and smacked them vigorously against the soil to dislodge all those drying, free-for-the-taking seeds. The neighbors must have thought I was trying to repel a horde of moles.<br /><br />And just this morning, in fact, a tiny sound made an instant Time Machine moment---i was opening a door at the hospital, and heard the distinct sound of the Milkman coming up the battered brick walk at Mammaw's house. That clink of bottles in the wire cage was unmistakable, and I was absolutely transported for the moment it took to turn around and see a blue-clad figure rolling a good-sized floor-cart of small oxygen bottles. I mentioned the moment to her, and she parted with "Now I'm craving some good cold MILK!"<br /><br />Well, a moment is a moment, and though far-fetched, it's given me a little nudge toward a blog post I've been wanting to write.<br /><br />We're 56 mornings and sixties days lately, with the fluffiest clouds in a clear-washed sky. Reward for all that deluge of last week, I think.<br /><br />r<br />RachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-51399236002923379102017-06-26T09:41:13.618-07:002017-06-26T09:41:13.618-07:00Hello CD, Cow parsley and Queen Anne's lace m...Hello CD, Cow parsley and Queen Anne's lace might be similar, but it is very important to distinguish exactly among members of this family, especially when eating, for many lookalikes in the carrot/parsley family are deadly poison. Wild carrot, however is really carrot, and the white roots are edible, although rather strong-flavored and tough. One way to tell Queen Anne's lace is that the center floweret in each head is usually dark purple in color.<br />--Jim<br />Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-25157030498091160232017-06-26T07:38:48.472-07:002017-06-26T07:38:48.472-07:00I love Queen Anne's lace - maybe we should cal...I love Queen Anne's lace - maybe we should call it all Wild Carrot:)<br /><br />And I am surprised by my childhood all the time, as it hangs out in the culverts and empty lots and hillsides of Silicon Valley - where I still live.LPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209861350905135093noreply@blogger.com