10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STICKY WILLIE»
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1
A Journey Through the Garden: The First Year of Bereavement
Locals here call it 'Sticky Willie', but I'm sure it must have a proper name. It is the
most awful stuff. It has little sticky round seeds which stick to everything... clothes..
. cats... dogs... The garden is full of it. But not for much longer, war has been ...
2
The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate ...
sparrowgrass spearmint speld tea spiceberry spice ginger spignet spike spirit
herb spogel spotted alder spotted thistle spurdock squaw root squinant squirrel
corn star flower starweed starwort staunchweed sticklewort sticky willie stinging ...
The afternoon was close and sticky Willie kept slapping at his legs where the
insects were biting. Out of the breeze from the sea, the air barely moved at all.
They sat on the ground in the tree's shade while McKenzie went into the shack.
4
Plant Power: The Humorous HerbalistÕs Guide To Finding, ...
Thus, the slang terms for cleavers is “catchweed,” “grip grass” and my personal
favorite, “sticky willie.” It's also known as “goose grass” because geese tend to
love the stems. While gardeners worldwide curse the day cleavers wandered
onto ...
5
Herb Gardening For Dummies
... moss/peat, 85, 120 spices, defined, 9 sprouts, herbs as, 87 St. John's wort (
Hypericum perforatum), 32 star anise (Illicium verum), 255 starflower, 20 stems
and leaves, 25–27 sticklewort (agrimony), 252 sticky traps, 162 sticky Willie.
Karan Davis Cutler, Kathleen Fisher, Suzanne DeJohn, 2010
6
The Romance of Plant Life: Interesting Descriptions of the ...
... they had not developed the most beautiful methods of doing so. In autumn, as
soon as the leaves of the Hawthorn have fallen off, one is sure to find upon the
hedges the common Robin-run-the-Hedge (Goosegrass, Cleavers, or Sticky
Willie, ...
George Francis Scott Elliot, 1907
7
Veterinary Herbal Medicine
Galium aparine L. and other Galium spp • GAY-lee-um ap- air-EEN Other Names:
Clivers, bedstraw, goose grass, galium, burweed, barweed, catch weed, clike,
click, clitheren, clithers, cleaverwort, coachweed, sticky-willie, gosling weed, ...
Susan G. Wynn, Barbara Fougère, 2007
8
Teaching Science in the Primary Classroom
The boxes contained horse chestnuts, strawberries, sweet chestnuts in their
cases, acorns, burrs, Sticky Willie (also known as catch weed, Galium aparine),
mangetout, sugar snap peas, a small orange, blackberries, a poppy head,
honesty ...
Hellen Ward, Judith Roden, Claire Hewlett, 2008
9
The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish ...
In 2008 a Swiss federal commission on biotechnology seriously debated the
dignity and sensitivity of plants.26 Will we soon see an anti-racist tribunal
criminalizing references to the plant Sticky Willie in conversation or forbidding the
use of ...
10
The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life
The list so farisdiverse, andthe harvesthere isthereforealways ample: Therelives
among thoseIcan now identify the likes of bedstraw (which my friend Marco
charmingly calls Sticky Willie), bindweed, bittersweet, broadleaf plantain, bur ...
