Eggarton Cottages, Eggarton Lane, Godmersham, Kent, CT4 7DY
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Hardy annual. Coarse toothed foliage and large golden-yellow flowers. Height to 20 in (51 cm). Closely related to the Ox-eye Daisy. Also known as Yellow Ox-eye, Bigold, Boodle and Raddles. By the end of the fourteenth-century, tenant farmers were ordered to get rid of it from barley fields because it was such a pest. However, insects like its nectar. Will grow OK in coastal areas.
Flowers June to August. Can be used for night sweats, fever, sores, ulcers, burns. Used to be used for making protective wreaths. Believed to be able to strip a witch of her will.
Plant in full sun and non-acid, light soil.
Butterflies love this plant � food plant of the Chalk Hill Blue Butterfly caterpillar.