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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Mrs Ava on June 06, 2005, 16:27:31

Title: What is this please?
Post by: Mrs Ava on June 06, 2005, 16:27:31
Another mystery plant I have grown from seed.  Have a huge clump in the front garden, and this one in the shade by our pond.

p.s.  sorry about my filthy hands.  Blame the garden!
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: kitty on June 06, 2005, 16:35:36
hmm...looks like a variety of jacobs ladder to me-polemonium...... ???
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: Mrs Ava on June 06, 2005, 16:40:09
Could well be, but I had something I thought was jacobs ladder, simlar leaves but totally different flowers and pure white.....I must label...I must label....I must label!
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: Palustris on June 06, 2005, 22:10:07
Polemonium pauciflorum.
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: campanula on June 13, 2005, 12:54:21
yep E.J. - i have the same problem with failure to label. I have had several nasty shocks such as growing Nicandra in a hanging basket - a huge bushy type thing with fabulous flowers but completely the wrong place to plant it.....and this is only one of many, many labelling-related mishaps. Still, E.J. it is a lovely plant - I have found myself carefully nurturing weeds before now.
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: Amazin on June 13, 2005, 21:48:37
It's a really pretty little thing isn't it? EJ, is it scented?
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: Mrs Ava on June 13, 2005, 22:17:51
No Amazin, it isn't.  Shame really, but it is cute, and spills out over the edge of our pond which is perfect!

I too have nurtured weeds Campanula, thistles and dandilions in the past.  Shame I know, but then weeds are only plants in the wrong place.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on June 13, 2005, 23:07:20
I nurture weeds annually; right now I've got a nice clump of mullein, which I replanted when it was sprouting in the wrong place last year. It's currently being eaten alive by mullein moth caterpillars but they're too nice to kill. I get them every year; they don't touch the plants in the first year when they're small and vulnerable, then swarm all over them in the second.
Title: Re: What is this please?
Post by: Amazin on June 13, 2005, 23:34:38
Couldn't agree more that weeds are only plants in the wrong place. If this one's happy by a pond I must check it out - I need something to contrast with the lavender.