Did it smell Bodshi? it looks like wild sage to me, some sort of salvia for sure.
I thought those were just a nettle variant in flower they haven't killed my neddies yet
Only thing coming up that looks like that on google is marsh hedge nettle but it looks like it's native to America..........
http://www.friendsofthewildflowergarden.org/pages/plants/marshhedgenettle.html
Woo hoo @Bodshi's mum!
Haha, she actually taught botany and biology in the olden days .... funny how she can remember things like that - it's like seeing a little glimpse of the old mum again.
Haha, she actually taught botany and biology in the olden days .... funny how she can remember things like that - it's like seeing a little glimpse of the old mum again.
I watched a programme a few weeks ago, there was a very elderly gent on it, quite a famous musician in his day if I remember rightly, who had dementia, used to sit in his chair all day almost like the light had gone from his life, someone in his family took in recordings of the music he used to play and it was wonderful to see the difference, it was almost as though he was back to his old self and he was singing along to every word.
Dementia is such a terrible disease and those rare glimpses are both beautiful and heart renching at the same time aren't they. x
My dad is a bit like that when he gets going about his old army days. He's into his fourth year of dementia but still likes to talk about that because it's somehow familiar? He is 90 - and fit as a fiddle apart from his poor befuddled head. It's difficult seeing them like it though isn't it?
It is an awful disease isn't it and one that my mum was determined not to suffer. She had written it into her will that if euthanasia were legal by the time she got to this stage she'd want to take that option (as would I). She was intelligent, fit and active and had been all over the world on bird and flower spotting holidays. Now she's reduced to sitting in a chair with nothing to look forward to except the next meal, she can't read her books and can no longer even follow the TV. Just to see a little spark of her old self is both amazing, wonderful and somehow very poignant.