I’m traveling in Northern Norway and I’ve noticed there’s a lot of fireweed growing in people’s gardens, sometimes small fields even.
Do you use fireweed to something or is it just because it looks pretty? Because it does look very very pretty.
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It’s pretty.
Also, it’s hardy, helps the little fella you see on the picture, *and it spreads a billion seeds come fall….*
And it’s tea. The original Ivan Chai is it’s fermented leaves.
Nah. It just grows like crazy. It is a pioneer plant, meaning it is one of the first plants to grow after the soil has been disturbed. That’s why you call it fireweed. Some brits call it bombweed since it was usually the first flower to bloom in a bomb crater.
Geitrams flowers are great for saft https://www.matprat.no/oppskrifter/kos/geitramssaft/
They’re everywhere in the south too. Just pretty. Bumblebees love them.
They’re just impossible to get rid of. We’ve got them on the roof of our cabin. Every year we try to get rid of them, and every year they grow even more than the year before. So it’s a good thing they’re as pretty as they are 🙂
When earl gray was introduced to Norway loooong ago, I know they sped it out with it.
But we don’t use it. It just a mundane pretty plant all over the place