One of our favourite long flowering perennials, the daisy-type blooms of Mexican fleabane (or Erigeron karvinskianus, to use its formal name) can be seen peeping out from all corners of Wisley at ...

Young oaks create an understory that turns colorful in autumn, thickets of wild rose line the trail with carpets of fleabane and yarrow. Pinetop Springs forms another marshy area near the halfway ...

Throughout the spring, summer and fall, the plant world has treated us to a colorful array of flowers. In March, the flowers of the skunk cabbage were the first to bloom, and now, we have the fall ...

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Broad-leaved fleabane is a common weed in waste places and on roadsides, but has become more common on farms in New Zealand in recent years. The stems can grow over a metre tall, are not readily eaten ...

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“That echinacea is pretty tired,” Mike noted, then pointed out a lacy thing resting on a fleabane blossom. “Here’s an ichneumon wasp,” he said. “It lays its egg inside the larvae of ...

But then there's also a role for insecticides - things like my tansy, my wormwood, fleabane. They're for keeping insects out of the house, things like flies or ants or, or body lice, fleas.