[jonibee]

This was taken down at Scituate MA lighthouse parking lot..in 2013 (July)..history sign, lighthouse and Queen Annes Lace flower...

 

[Casey47]

Beautiful. I heard that if you put queen annes lace in a vase and put coloring in the water, the flower will turn that color but I've never gotten around to trying it.

 

[Lady of the Lake]

We have them growing wild all over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; they are a beautiful flower and even the dried 'bird's nests' of the 'dead' flowers are good for a fall bouquet.

 

[Gurney]

That's lovely. Don't know when I last heard anybody call the plant by that name, which used to be so well known. Children nowadays don't know names for flowers unless they are lucky enough to have a parent or teacher who loves botanising.

 

[bigalbigal3]

Beautiful

 

[Patty Sutter]

Very pretty. They are actually a wild carrot.
Have you ever put the cut stems is a jar of colored water?
If enough food color is in the water, the flowers soak it up.
You can have a multi colored bouquet.
A fun project with kids.

 

[MaryE-B]

Very pretty. They are actually a wild carrot.

But unlike a carrot they are toxic!

 

[LadyBecket]

I love all of your pictures!!! We have 5 acres that we let go to the wild 25 years ago and now it is completely full of trees, shrubs and wild flowers. The Queen Ann's Lace is my favorite and in mid summer it comes on with a vengeance!!

 

[TXBARB]

We have had so much new construction in our area that all the wild patches of Queen Anne's Lace are gone. I really miss seeing it since it is my favorite.

 

[Grammy Toni]

The Queen Annes' Lace that grows in the East is so much bigger and prettier than the ones out here in California. When friends would tell me that what I saw here was that flower, I would say, I didn't think so because they were so small. I remember the ones in Long Island when I got to visit my Grandparents, and this picture is how I remember them. Big and lacy - showy flowers.

 

[alvadee]

I have it all over our land also but never heard about putting it in colored water. Will try it and see what colors I can get. I'm just a big kid myself.

 

[maureen ann]

There is a beautiful shawl pattern called Queens Ann's lace

 

[nitchik]

We have Queen Ann's Lace here. Had never thought of putting them on colored water, so this summer, when they come in, I'll pick some so my GS can try it.

 

[kiwiannie]

Very beautiful,thanks for posting.

 

[disgo]

But unlike a carrot they are toxic!

And a noxious weed. Many flowers (especially those that tend to reflect the white spectrum of light meaning all the colors of the rainbow combined) will take up dyes. Just look at the poor orchids in the store that are blue until they bloom their natural white the next year.

By the way, carrots are toxic too just like rhubarb leaves. The leaves are toxic due to the abundant organic compounds they store over their "weaker" stems which we can tolerate (thank goodness because NOTHING is better than a just picked rhubarb pie/sauce). Carrots are loaded with carotenoids and poisoned my Great Uncle and rotted his liver--he was a juice freak and got Jack La Lane started.

They should be boiled to death and all liquid left discarded since carotenoids are water soluble and then eaten in small amounts. Never eat them raw because they cause rabbits to have short life expectancies. Eating the tops have less carotenoids stored in them than the root so use the tops in salads as a mild laxative.

Queen Anne's Lace is tatting which she made popular by doing it herself (holding shuttle in her hand for her royal portrait) and thus the name of the flower that resembles tatted doilies (that I've made in every color available).

The Queen Annes' Lace that grows in the East is so much bigger and prettier than the ones out here in California. When friends would tell me that what I saw here was that flower, I would say, I didn't think so because they were so small. I remember the ones in Long Island when I got to visit my Grandparents, and this picture is how I remember them. Big and lacy - showy flowers.

Because you don't get enough rain at the right times of the year. In Seattle they can be 9-10" across and look like white flags in the burrow pits (before the state sprays and kills them all back).

I have it all over our land also but never heard about putting it in colored water. Will try it and see what colors I can get. I'm just a big kid myself.

Just cut the newly budding ones and place in a concentrated solution of food coloring or paste gel and set in sunny window. They can be dried like a hydrangea and used for dried flower arranging (with your real Queen Anne's Lace doily underneath).

 

[ParkerEliz]

I love QAL. As kids we would pick the dried stems in the fall and spray paint the heads for a bouquet. I'm not quite sure if Mom found them as lovely as we did!

 

[jonibee]

Because you don't get enough rain at the right times of the year. In Seattle they can be 9-10" across and look like white flags in the burrow pits (before the state sprays and kills them all back).

Thank you for the interesting post about Queen Annes Lace & carrots...

 

[run4fittness]

I have yet to find it here in Washington. Had lots of it growing up in MIssouri.

 

[graymist]

The ones I have seen always have a small red dot in the center. My mother told me it was where Queen Anne pricked herself while tatting.

 

[arlenecc]

Its one tough plant. They grow from Vancouver BC up past Dawson Creek. We lived at Mile 13 on the Alaska Hy and they grew on the land, very well, and so did a lot of other wild flowers.