#Lungwort

[michaelnordeman]

In the garden. Värmland, Sweden (May 5, 2024).

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 4 April 2024

Here Pulmonaria saccharata (lungwort) is thriving in this shady border of a walled garden. The funnel-shaped flowers are borne in shades of blue and pink, they are popular with bees, particularly the hairy footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes).

Jill Raggett

[wild-e-eep]

Lobarina scrobiculata - textured lungwort. This large, leafy lichen is usually rather faded and tatty-looking, but all the rain seems to have spruced it up a bit. Gorgeous! <3

[jagalart]

day 4: lungwort and sweet pea

This one is for the amazing Troj <3

[softlywool]

Sun on lungwort

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Leach Botanical Garden

Treehouse Gardens

[bumblebeeappletree]

Lichen is a natural way to create various colors for your textile and craft projects depending on the type you forage and how you process it. Beard, wolf & lungwort (usnea, letharia vulpina & lobaria pulmonaria) are great lichen to start with since they are often blown away from their host and more easily collected from the forest floor. This tutorial will show the boiling water method of making dye from each type of lichen, as well as the resulting color swatch samples (wool, silk, bamboo & cotton).

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Lichen of PNW

1:32 Lichen varieties

3:53 Latin names

4:13 Ammonia method

4:55 Mordant

5:37 Foraging lichen

6:24 Lichen Dyes tutorial resource

6:52 Processing methods

7:47 Rock beard lichen

8:44 IFFS lichen dye samples

12:18 Boiling water method

13:58 Dyed fiber samples

15:25 Wrap up

16:48 Sneak peek of next tutorial

18:01 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Lichen - beard, wolf & lungwort

Pot with lid

Scissors

Spoon

Strainer

Textile

[technicolortrenchcoat]

I have such conflicted feelings about this plant

I love how it looks, the spotty leaves, the pink purple and blue flowers. It's the bi flag in a flower. It tells you about the acidity of your soil based on the flower colors it makes! What a cool plant!!!

Also it's called "lungwort" so that

Puts a real damper on things

[cyandocs]

The lungwort is blooming!! Pink and polka dots!!!

[icepixie]

Some garden photos from February/early March.

[peaceandplanet]

Spring is finally here

We’ve had a very wet and relatively mild winter in my neck of the woods with only one cold snap that lasted all of a week. Been longing for spring this whole time and now we have sure signs it’s on its way. The spring equinox here in the UK is 3am GMT 20th March, this coming Wednesday. Looking forward to it so much!

[michaelnordeman]

Spring flowers. Värmland, Sweden (April 18, 2019).

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 10 April 2023

Perfect for a woodland garden or a semi-shaded area beneath deciduous shrubs is the herbaceous perennial Pulmonaria angustifolia 'Munstead Blue' (lungwort). This clump-forming plant provides deep blue flowers in early spring that are appreciated by the bees.

Jill Raggett

[thundercat70]

Pulmonaria officinalis, Spotted Lungwort or Common Lungwort a lovely little lad named after our Lungs. Most of Europe is blessed with reaching from Coast to Russia Central. Sadly Norway missed the day they were being handed out, The British Isles too missed it but took action and harboured it until naturalized. The Rest of the World Took notice and decided “Hey thats a nice plant I want one too” and so they got one or two. The Lungworts are little hidey boys and prefer to be under larger vessels with shades. But if those untethered solar winds hit the little babino before its ready it will be Vegetative (wow) and wait till its shady to grow. They grace the land with their colours during early spring, which they appear red-pink at first but will alter their own pH levels to make themselves blue-purple. Leonhart Fuchs (he sure did, 1501-1566) haply named the genus for he was a German Physician and 1/3 Founding Botanists, while Carl Linnaeus only got to give the epithet (second name part). And at the time anything remotely shaped like an organ was surely but the Big Man’s work was to cure an ailment relative to that shape. And by the Silly Man of Land Luck trait they got an actual plant they has healing attributes that does help with Lung ailments also burns. This is a common Action that Occurs throughout time, what chance. Note: Please Do Not Ingest Random Plants you have No Knowledge About or Using them Medically. 

[amazing-gray42]

Some trilliums and I think lungwort

April 16, 2022

[bonusdragons]

October 13, 2022:

Cornflower Primary, Bogsneak, Fade.

Lungwort of Doozie’s clan!