Jan 062017
Senecio vulgaris
When the children go back to school after Christmas, the landscape looks fairly bleak, with very few flowers to brighten things up. However, a closer look at my vegetable patch revealed this one. Groundsel is usually considered a weed, as it commonly found on waste-ground and in flower-beds and vegetable patches. Its inconspicuous yellow flowers are like tiny, tightly-furled dandelion flowers. And its fluffy seeds blow in the wind like those of the dandelion.