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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Flighty on July 13, 2009, 19:55:20

Title: What's this please?
Post by: Flighty on July 13, 2009, 19:55:20
All I can tell you is that it's low growing and the flowers are about an inch diameter

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Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: landimad on July 13, 2009, 20:01:53
I think its a Matricaria eximia snowball Feverfew if I am not mistaken.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Flighty on July 13, 2009, 20:08:16
Landimad thanks you're very close! I now remember being given a packet of these!

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Shop/Alan+Titchmarsh+Cottage+Garden+Flower+Seeds/Matricaria+White+Gem+Seeds+142431.htm

Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: landimad on July 13, 2009, 20:20:36
I cant be that bad at this then.
Still a lot to learn ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Hector on July 13, 2009, 20:22:10
wow, gorgeous. How tall does it get?
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Flighty on July 13, 2009, 20:30:38
Landimad well done! We never stop learning do we!

Hector yes very pretty. Only about 8".
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: landimad on July 13, 2009, 20:31:02
8" I think is the size of the height of the plant
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Digeroo on July 13, 2009, 20:54:38
Feverfew is a terrible weed.  But great for headaches.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: landimad on July 13, 2009, 20:57:30
Not for me though just gives me a headache thinking of pulling out weeds ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on July 13, 2009, 21:15:14
what a weed! Actually grew it from a packet of seed! What an idiot. The name means fever flight, as in put fever to flight
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 13, 2009, 22:35:40
I planted it years ago, and it haunts me yet. It's easily pulled out when it grows in the wrong place, and it brightens up the garden, so I'm not about to object to it.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 14, 2009, 11:02:50
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on July 13, 2009, 22:35:40
I planted it years ago, and it haunts me yet. It's easily pulled out when it grows in the wrong place, and it brightens up the garden, so I'm not about to object to it.
I let some of it pop up in a couple areas because it will keep blooming when everything else has died except the zinnias and makes a good picked flower filler. For some reason the deer don't eat it, maybe they don't get headaches.