Queen Anne's Lace is blooming.  It's blooming in the meadows, and here in my arugula bed!!!

 

It is called Wild Carrot, because the first year the roots are edible.  I'm telling you, they are really tiny and really dirty, and carrots in the grocery cost less than a dollar a pound.  Don't want to admit my laziness, but....you get my drift.  The second year, it blooms.  That's when it is spectacular.

 

They are in the same family as parsley, carrot, celery, dill, fennel.  The greens are edible, even though they don't have much flavor.  But they taste a little like parsley.    I just love knowing what we can add it to our salads.

 

This picture doesn't show you the greens;  those leaves you see are Echinacea.  The Queen Anne's Lace leaves are feathery, like carrots.  

But, aren't the flowers beautiful?

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!