Comments on: Visit Culpeper’s Spitalfields

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:48:08 +0000

Love it!

By: Venetia

Venetia — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:32:13 +0000

Thank you for you encyclopaedic knowledge and your diligence in searching out all these different plants in unlikely places. I was passionate about herbal remedies when I was younger and this is a reminder to actually use them again.

By: Hetty Startup

Hetty Startup — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:49:58 +0000

this photographic tour is completely wonderful – lots of information and birds eye or worm’s eye views – thank you! Could you add it to your programme of tours? Hetty

By: Cherub

Cherub — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:01:01 +0000

This was really very interesting. In Basel the city has a number of historic fountains that dispense clean drinking water. They encourage the public to use them for keeping feet cool and a huge one near me has small children paddling in it all summer.

This year the water company decided to have an urban city project where 4 fountains at a time are drained and planted out on rotation during the summer – some have flowers, but others herbs that people are encouraged to pick either for cooking or medicinal purposes. There have been a few complaints as it’s so hot and some people would prefer the water, but the ones planted out do look lovely and smell wonderful.

By: Jacqueline Feasey

Jacqueline Feasey — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:47:27 +0000

Thank you for all of your wonderful posts. I especially enjoyed this one.
I have foxgloves kindly planted by the wind or the birds perhaps. I read that they are used in some heart medication but known as Digitalis. I suffer from heart problems and I wonder if nature knows.

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:56:19 +0000

Fascinating, thanks! I’m especially intrigued about the buddleja: the Asian species pictured wasn’t introduced until about the 1890s, and Buddleja americana, though named by Linnaeus, was (I believe) not very common. Did Culpeper know it, or is this a quote from a much more recent edition? (Agree with Bob about Erigeron – I can never understand how it sells, as it self-seeds so easily!)

By: Marnie

Marnie — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:00:25 +0000

Lovely article and walkabout, GA, especially on this unusually bright, sunny morning in NE Ohio (167 days out of 365). Unknowing folks hereabouts–including myself–likely give these beneficents a hearty dose of toxic Roundup without a further thought.

I wonder whether my Huguenot ancestors who spent a while in Spitalfields before boarding ships for the perilous journey to the New World would have known about and used these herbs. (And, yes, we DO pronounce the ‘h.’)

By: Saba

Saba — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:58:33 +0000

GA, I can never imagine how you manage to research, photograph, write, and post these wonderful articles every single day. Any one of them would take me a week. Keep them coming. They are great and I am a loyal fan. Saba

By: achim

achim — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:32:57 +0000

My goodness, this duplicity of cases: a few days ago I was photographing magnificent rose blossoms in our Stadthallen Garden (Kassel’s tiny “Central Park”). And then I noticed a small poppy that had fought its way between stone slabs. I took a photo of her, too. I didn’t want her to get a complex…

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Paul Bommer

Paul Bommer — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:52:18 +0000

What a wonderful tour, in such great company (NC and GA both)! For me there is no sight more joyous than wildflowers, Chelsea and Kew are all well and good but a meadow of wild weeds giving life blows those two away for me.

I am a huge fan of Culpeper, for both is deep knowledge and deep kindness, and would love so much to one day create a delft ‘tegeltableau’ in his honour!