Meadowsweet is also known as Queeen of the Meadow. It grows in damp places and is gorgeous in flower and scent. It has many medical uses and is stuffed full of natural aspirin - the world's most useful drug.
The photo of Meadowsweet was taken on the canal towpath where it is quite wet. Lot of meadow sweet in bloom there, but in my garden where it is drier, it is just forming buds. Canals are great places for wild flowers in strange places - particularly the more industrial stretches. So if you live in town and can get to a canal bank you might find all sorts. Often, there are exotics that have grown from seeds left behind from barge cargoes. Chamomile growing on a heavily built up stretch of the canal. Now decreasing in the wild, it is one of the oldest garden herbs valued for its medicinal qualities.
I have allready got loads of chamomile and i am drying it at the moment..i think its growing in every nook it can find!!
