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it's a prickly tall plant very similar and closely related to common teasel also found in the water meadows, but much rarer. It is suited to the place we found it, damp open woodland.

Clouds of these were disturbed when we walked through the nettles to do our plant survey

Marjoram is one of the best flowering plants for pollinators and it's in full flower in July. It has been used as a culinary and medicinal herb for thousands of years so is likely that it existed in the days of the Abbey of St Edmund. It's a natural antiseptic because of its high 'thymol' content and is like to also help pollinators fight mites and undesirable fungal infections.

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