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Garden Club There is a certain irony to categorizing some plants as tasks associated with these meetings. In the meantime, this invasive. Queen Anne's lace is a perfect example. The carrot column will continue to offer insights into gardening here at family plant that accompanied our European ancestors is Four Seasons. ~ Leonard Tavernetti invasive because it is non-native. The ancestors, on the other hand are not so categorized. Since it grows wild with little need for care and water, some even call it a weed. This plant is the forbearer of modern carrots, is a member of the parsley family and is biennial, blooming the second year from June to October. Look closely at a Queen Anne's lace flower. You will see a tiny purplish-black floweret in the center of the otherwise white flower. The black floweret is sterile and will not produce seed. Both Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and her great grandmother Anne of Denmark are taken to be the Queen Anne for which the plant is named. It is so called because the flower resembles lace; the dark red flower in the center is thought to represent a blood droplet where Queen Queen Anne's lace Anne pricked herself with a needle when she was making the lace. The function of the tiny red flower is to attract insects. Due to schedule conflicts and waning enthusiasm the Garden Club is now dormant. New leadership is needed by several homeowners willing to devote time and energy into preparing meetings, corralling speakers and handling administrative CLUBS & GROUPS | FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | AUGUST 2013 37

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