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What is this plant
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The valerian comes in two shades of red/pink and there's a white too. It grows as a tolerated weed in many villages near me, especially out of, or over, stone walls. It is prolific this year.0
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Thank you Dave
Today i went to my parents and sure enough some of the heads were white fluffy seeds so i collected some!! I love them shame they are weeds LOL! xDebtFree FEB 2010!Slight blip in 2013 - Debtfree Aug 2014 :j
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The red valerian grows everywhere in my dad's garden, especially as he's not been well enough for a while to do any real gardening. I have tried and tried to get it to grow in mine coz I love it, but it's having nothing of it. Must be the very different soils as we are only about 30 miles from each other.
I read on line it is easily grown in all soils as it isnt fussy, maybe try taking some from the roots and replanting it or collecting a good amount of seeds to try xDebtFree FEB 2010!Slight blip in 2013 - Debtfree Aug 2014 :j
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Valerian is going crazy in the villages round us this year. It used to be used by country folk as a sedative type effect, to help them sleep and help stop anxiety. You can still buy pills and stuff now made from it.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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Lotus-eater wrote: »Valerian is going crazy in the villages round us this year. It used to be used by country folk as a sedative type effect, to help them sleep and help stop anxiety. You can still buy pills and stuff now made from it.
Hang on! The OP is talking about Red Valerian Kentranthus ruber, but I think you are talking about Valeriana officinalis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_(herb)
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I do apologise, I have always thought they were one and the same. Ooops.
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Lotus-eater wrote: »I do apologise, I have always thought they were one and the same. Ooops.
I only have the medicinal one, but it is a pretty form with bronze early foliage, which turns greenish around now as it starts to flower. It's been a consistently good seller in spring.
I always thought of it as a fairly sophisticated, garden plant, until I came here. It grows all the way down a nearby lane!
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