Island Threads

the unknown flower is now a known flower it is a sidalcea, my art, quilting and gardening friend came to lunch today and she said it looked like a pink flower she has, so she took a flowering stem with leaves home with her, shortly after she e mailed to say it is the same as her pink one and the name is sidalcea, I’ve never heard of this family but then I haven’t heard of lots of plants families,

I did a search and guess what dear ole auntie beeb has it in the plant finder……but it’s the pink version, I then found this wonderful gallery of sidalceas which shows them in pinks, white and reds, as you might guess most of the websites coming up are for nurseries selling the plant, I have not yet found my actual version of the plant, I did find an interesting website about native plants that included sidalcea,


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I don’t know if you may have seen it but just incase you haven’t I thought I would write here, Cate has left a message on the previous post asking for help in the preparation of fleece for weaving on the islands in bygone days, I do not know a lot so am going to contact people who may be able to help but if anyone reading can help with this please leave a comment with the info, thanks in advance,