Look...what is growing...

**Mipi** · 3rd August 10, 10:43 AM

...in front of my home:

Like it would know, I like kilts and Celtic kulture.

Regards!

Mipi

**Lallans** · 3rd August 10, 10:54 AM

The thistles do know. They just do.

**starbkjrus** · 3rd August 10, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

The thistles do know. They just do.

Yup, they do indeed!

**wildrover** · 3rd August 10, 11:30 AM

**A Hay** · 3rd August 10, 12:02 PM

Strange but true.

I had a thistle plant growing between the paving stones in my driveway this summer. No others that I could see in the neighborhood. Just that one.
It was so pretty I just let it grow and bloom. As the blooms were fading, I cut it out this last weekend. Too many small children passed it by.

Could it be that a seed drifted over from Scotland to Germany? The prevailing winds are right.

It will be interesting to see if it comes back.

Thanks for posting your picture.

Tom

**cessna152towser** · 3rd August 10, 12:15 PM

Entirely appropriate!

**Pleater** · 3rd August 10, 03:34 PM

We used to call the thistle seeds 'angels' when we were children - 50 years ago in South Yorkshire.

It is really beautiful to see the seeds rising from a patch of thistles in a light breeze on a warm afternoon.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Bugbear** · 3rd August 10, 04:20 PM

And how do you know that we aren't being cultivated by the thistles?

**CameronCat** · 3rd August 10, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

The thistles do know. They just do.

Then they must think I'm some sort of sinner. I'd love to have a thistle or two in the garden, but every time I think the one coming up is a keeper, it turns into some deformed variant or hostile weed.
Haven't yet had a really nice one (like the picture) show up.

Lucky you!

<sigh>