RAPE !

Does nothing for me Zigs - not anymore,
Jenny

 

Made Willow & I sneeze.

 

bees will be happy though

 

I love it, especially when evening sun shines on it below leaden rainclouds.


http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5152/7071371169_1ed32b62f4_z.jpg

 

Ah yes, the yellow fields. I have fond memories from a yellow field once. I'll say no more than that on that point.

Apart from that though, I'm not a fan. The odour they give off for a weeks of the year actually makes me feel physically ill. Sort of dizzy and weak and nauseous. I used to think it was something the farmers had sprayed on it but someone told me it is not that dissimilar to mustard gas.

Very pretty though.

 

I am totally allergic to it. In 1997 in Bucks had to stop the car on a country lane coming home from work because I couldn't breathe and then went straight to the doctors. Each year we went back to the UK in the summer (2002-2004) I could smell it after we left the ferry in Plymouth and we were around Exeter way ... and I started sneezing ... and I mean 20-30 times non-stop! Like Clue1 I felt physically ill and I am not an 'ill' person but cannot cope with that ... and thankfully do not have to any more.

 

Well I like it.

 

We often see fields totally blue a bit later, I'm guessing that's flax?

 

Or linseed, nor sure if that's the same or related. More of a grey-blue haze, that one.

 

Linseed comes from flax

 

Rape, dreadful stuff, it plays havoc with hay fever sufferers. All my children suffer from hay fever and when we moved to the island it was a lot better. Apart from one field I've not seen it growing here.