A Note From “The Hoe.” Flower Weather Guides
Quite a number of common plants are really useful in helping us to find out what kind of weather is coming. Here are a few kinds, which are well worth watching. The pretty Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) is called the Poor Man’s Weather Glass. If a storm is approaching, or the weather is unsettled the blossoms remain tightly closed, and it is not until the warm sun is glowing again that they expand. Without a doubt, the flowers act in response to the light and probably the warmth as well. More sensitive still are the Californian poppies (Eschscholtzia) which, of all flowers in the garden, are the most reluctant to open. Even in the finest weather the golden blooms never expand save in the brightest hours of the day: they are quick to appreciate that increase of dampness in the air which heralds the coming of rain. During thundery weather when a storm is approaching. the blossoms give a very definite warning by beginning to close. This often happens some hours in T advance of the actual downpour, so that a close study of the'Eschscholtzias will often save one a wetting. iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiii
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 5
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200A Note From “The Hoe.” Flower Weather Guides Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 5
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