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Tall thistle above Sourhope Burn

Gloomy Cleugh, draining the hillside to the right of the plantation, joins Sourhope Burn to the left of the shelter. Near End Plantation is behind on the southern slope of Hairny Law.

An essence of Marsh Thistle is said to be a cure for those who have become locked in the past who cling to the familiar and routine for support and view anything very new with fear and suspicion Link
It doesn't look a promising plant for a salad.

There's a fine braw thistle that lifts its croon
By the river-bank whaur the ashes stand,
An' the swirl o' water comes whisp'rin' doon
Past birk an' bramble an' grazin' land.
But simmer's flittit an' time's no heedin'
A feckless lass nor a pridefu' flow'r;
The dark to hide me's the grace I'm needin'.
An' the thistle's seedin',
An' my day's owre.

The first verse of The End o't by Violet Jacob (1921).