Fuller's Winter. Dipsacus fullonum, Fuller's Teasel, Knickerbocker Hill, Pittsford, New York, USA
High Winter here in Upstate New York where I continue my Sad Duty. Winter is upon us and also on the little historical cemetery at the bottom of Knickerbocker Hill as you go into the town of Pittsford on the Erie Canal. Just about at the crest of the hill is a large field of these Teasels, Fuller's Teasel or Dipsacus fullonum. Marvellous plants in any season, and today quite pretty in a short clearing of the snowy skies. They bring back, of course, the use to which Teasels were once put in the wool industry, and woollies is just what you need on a bracing walk in these snows...
For a flowering Teasel, see my earlier
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Fuller's Winter. Dipsacus fullonum, Fuller's Teasel, Knickerbocker Hill, Pittsford, New York, USA
High Winter here in Upstate New York where I continue my Sad Duty. Winter is upon us and also on the little historical cemetery at the bottom of Knickerbocker Hill as you go into the town of Pittsford on the Erie Canal. Just about at the crest of the hill is a large field of these Teasels, Fuller's Teasel or Dipsacus fullonum. Marvellous plants in any season, and today quite pretty in a short clearing of the snowy skies. They bring back, of course, the use to which Teasels were once put in the wool industry, and woollies is just what you need on a bracing walk in these snows...
For a flowering Teasel, see my earlier
www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/14674449083/in/photoli....