HUSA Jun 23 2026 – Scottish Thistle

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Well, our crews are getting busy in many places, but they do have time to write. And, we had an interesting note from High Plains Harvesting yesterday. 

As you know, many Custom Harvest crews employ foreign workers. Longtime Scottish team member Calum enlightened us yesterday on some facts, with a picture below they wrote. You can find that picture on our Harvest USA Report Facebook page under High Plains Harvesting. 

Did you know that the national plant of Scotland is the thistle? Crazy, because that’s a noxious weed in a lot of places here in the U.S. 

Well, here’s the story. No one is truly sure of how the thistle came to be Scotland’s national flower.

A well-known story, though, attributes the thistle, being chosen as the emblem of Scotland, to the Battle of Largs in the 13th century. The Norse army journeyed to Scotland, intent on conquering the land. The legend has it that they left their ships under cover of night, and were planning to ambush the sleeping Scottish clansmen. In order to be as quiet as possible, the Norsemen had removed their shoes. However, as they crept across the countryside, one of them stepped on a thorny thistle. His cry of pain roused the Scots, and the warriors rose up and defeated the invaders.

Now that’s a natural defense system. 

Also, the national animal is the mythical unicorn. 

There are definitely some strange traditions in Scotland. That comes from High Plains Harvesting in between jobs. If you have something interesting that you’d like to share, be sure to tag HarvestUSAReport on your Facebook page, or send us an email. Or call us, the number is on the screen, right there at HarvestUSAReport.com. Get a report on the air. Tell us where you are, and how things are looking.