During the quarantine exercising my right to an hour walk outside I’ve got close and personal with my immediate area. And discovered things I didn’t see for three years I’ve been living in Bury (Greater Manchester). Post-industrial landscape converted to public parks and prettied with art, canals, plants and animals.
Taking pictures and using Google lense app I’ve identified them and discovered that surprisingly many of them are edible. After trying – and still alive – I think that while there is food in shops you’d want to eat them, but isn’t it great to know what’s around you?
Stems with flowers lean towards the light (positive phototropism), but at the end of flowering, the seed heads bend in the other direction (negative), so that the seeds are more likely to fall into cracks on supporting stones.
It was initially brought to Italy in Oxford as seeds on marble sculptures. Grew on the walls of colleges and gardens in Oxford in such abundance that it is called the “Oxford weed.”
It supposed to taste like watercress but it’s just bitter. On the other hand, I don’t like watercress, so may be it’s just me.
Go Yeast 