Comments on: In Search Of Culpeper’s Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 08 Sep 2016 02:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Martin Palmer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-1106443 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 02:15:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-1106443 So that is Herb Robert!
Where I live in the USA, there is a competition every year, run by the local newspaper, for the first buttercup of the year. If I’m not mistaken (and it has been known…) every year, early in the year, the compettion is won by a child taking in a celandine flower. Oh well, a celandine by any other name…. is still a pretty yellow flower. 😎

]]> By: Anne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958881 Thu, 21 May 2015 22:11:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958881 An outstanding post GA many thanks!! Also loved the echium that muscled in on the act in Bishops Square!!

]]> By: Patricia Celeveland-Peck https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958432 Wed, 20 May 2015 16:52:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958432 What a wonderful idea!
It clearly illustrates the amazing persistence of plants especially when one thinks that when Culpeper foraged for herbs for his impoverished patients he was gathering plants which had probably originally been planted in Medieval times.
The archeobotanical finds when the Prior’s Garden (13th -116th century) of the Hospital of St Mary Spital was excavated revealed seeds of a huge variety of herbs and flowers and it is s wonderful to think that they are still there, forcing their way to the light from the fields of Spitalfields which lie beneath the pavements.
How great that you sought them out.

]]> By: Sandra Gibson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958407 Wed, 20 May 2015 15:45:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958407 Enchanting. How wonderful that these plants, often regarded merely as weeds, endure against all the odds. I was glad of the identification of herb Robert which has appeared in my garden. Thank you for this.

]]> By: Linda G https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958400 Wed, 20 May 2015 15:29:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958400 Great idea for a blog! Culpepper must have enjoyed your companionship and chat en route.
I had to chuckle at the winking woman mural paired with buddleia and what it was used for! Ha!
As always, a pleasure to read your blog.

]]> By: Roger Carr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958360 Wed, 20 May 2015 12:35:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958360 Another lovely post. I was amused by the juxtaposition on Commercial Street of Tobacco and Camomile. Maybe drinking more of one would help with cravings for the other? Wished I’d been there on the walk.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958349 Wed, 20 May 2015 12:12:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958349 Read and enjoy this article but be careful about trying the remedies.
Ragwort is deadly, so much so that the Cinnabar Moth caterpiller eats it and becomes deadly to anything that eats it and the poison lives on into the adult moth. Honeysuckle berries are also poisonous.
Gary

]]> By: Jacqueline Mulligan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958338 Wed, 20 May 2015 11:26:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958338 I feel vindicated – we have several of these growing in our small courtyard garden in Hull and also at the front of our little Victorian terrace house. They have all self seeded and my husband thinks I’m mad for giving ‘weeds’ space and encouraging them! But I like them – especially Herb Robert.

]]> By: Anna https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958334 Wed, 20 May 2015 11:12:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958334 Lovely post and photos! Made me realise that half the time I think I’ve recognised a campion plant it’s been herb robert instead. I haven’t seen any honeysuckle blooming yet in my part of London, though, is it really already blooming so full in Spitalfields, or are some of these photos from last year?

btw I think your camomile is pineapple weed, which *is* a wild camomile, but smells different to the one that people make tea from (though you can also make tea from it)

]]> By: Bronchitikat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/05/20/in-search-of-culpepers-spitalfields/#comment-958303 Wed, 20 May 2015 09:28:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133968#comment-958303 Amazing the way plants just seem to spring up given the slightest opportunity. I’ve seen a Buddleia sprouting from an ancient chimney before now!

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