Witch's Charm. Groundsel, Senecio vulgaris, Our Garden, Venlo, The Netherlands
Venlo lies on the alluvial plain between the Herungerberg (Mount Herongen, I suppose) - on which runs the German frontier - and the Meuse River. In many areas this is boggy or fen land. And one might imagine it could well be conducive to the Witches of the English Fenlands. It is there said of our Groundsel that it sprouts up where a Wiitch has let water. And Witches, as we know, are around all year and thus our Groundsel, frost-resistant, greens and even flowers year-round, especially in untidy gardens such as ours.
Perhaps our Itinerant Witch had as a forebear one of Shakespeare's Tempestarii in Macbeth; they'd probably have liked our weather today:
'Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.'
Witch's Charm. Groundsel, Senecio vulgaris, Our Garden, Venlo, The Netherlands
Venlo lies on the alluvial plain between the Herungerberg (Mount Herongen, I suppose) - on which runs the German frontier - and the Meuse River. In many areas this is boggy or fen land. And one might imagine it could well be conducive to the Witches of the English Fenlands. It is there said of our Groundsel that it sprouts up where a Wiitch has let water. And Witches, as we know, are around all year and thus our Groundsel, frost-resistant, greens and even flowers year-round, especially in untidy gardens such as ours.
Perhaps our Itinerant Witch had as a forebear one of Shakespeare's Tempestarii in Macbeth; they'd probably have liked our weather today:
'Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.'