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Post by NellyDee on Aug 26, 2016 14:36:39 GMT
I dug up a rose that is very special to me and transported here when we moved. It has had a struggle to bloom as every year something seems to like eating the buds when they appear. Long story but I created a herb garden and put the rose with the herbs. The mace I planted this year has gone riotous and surrounded the rose and much to my delight the rose has produced a beautiful bloom surrounded by buds about to open - very late in the year I think. So question is Mace a mammal repellent? I say mammal as I cant think what else would take a whole bud to eat.
 Whisky Mac Dads rose by Helen Skelton, on Flickr
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Post by ayjay on Aug 26, 2016 21:10:08 GMT
I don't know about Mace, but looking at your pic, if I saw that flower in my garden I'd call it Feverfew.
I used to have a large collection of Hostas in my garden (over 70 different ones) and so I used to regularly go on slug and snail patrol, the large snails I used to throw in the pond for the fish to eat, the fish were a good size and quite capable of taking the large snails in their mouth. After a while I started to discover waterlily buds floating in the pond and deduced that the fish thought they were snails and were ripping them off the stalks to eat, once I stopped feeding them snails they stopped associating the lily buds with food and left them alone.
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 27, 2016 7:16:29 GMT
No it is not Feverfew surrounding the rose ayjay. I also have lots of feverfew. This is my feverfew, big difference in the leaf from the Mace.
 Feverfew by Helen Skelton, on Flickr
 Mace by Helen Skelton, on Flickr
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Post by ayjay on Aug 27, 2016 20:44:33 GMT
I wasn't sure if it was a colloquial name, my first quick google search only produced Nutmeg, and I couldn't see the leaves in your first pic. I've looked a bit harder since then. Mace it is.  |
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 28, 2016 9:24:02 GMT
Apparently this is English Mace herb as apposed to the mace from the outer shell of the nutmeg seed (which is a tree) - no wonder there is confusion. Been reading up on it. Apparently it is very insect resistant, so I might try planting it in my veg patch. Still can't find out if it is mammal or bird resistant.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 28, 2016 17:38:25 GMT
I hadn't heard of Mace but the flowers look identical to our native Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica (also same genus as Yarrow) + when I looked up Mace, it is the same genus, Achillea fragrans.
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