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Post by Peek on Aug 3, 2009 11:49:55 GMT
We bought a packet of seeds and just chucked them round the garden to see what came up, and this beauty recently appeared, any idea folks ? This second pic shows it before the buds have opened :
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Post by ivy noidea on Aug 3, 2009 12:43:03 GMT
I know nothing, but it looks like hibiscus.
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Post by Wanda Roff on Aug 3, 2009 16:46:08 GMT
I think so too.
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Post by Suzy R Sopham on Aug 3, 2009 17:05:29 GMT
I'd go along with that diagnosis.
If it's not, the only other thing I can think of is what I call a 'Toilet Tree' (Lavaterium).
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Post by Peek on Aug 3, 2009 17:09:57 GMT
Lol, I thought it might be a convulus...and I didn't realise that hibiscus grew outdoors !
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Post by Wanda Roff on Aug 3, 2009 17:33:27 GMT
I think that hibiscus flowers only last for a day.
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Post by tigerlily on Aug 3, 2009 18:31:37 GMT
They certainly don't last for very long, but it might be a couple or three days, I think.
You can overwinter them indoors as they aren't hardy. Ours is in a pot sunk into the garden border a wee way, so it can be dug up and brought inside, repotted and overwintered in the house.
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Post by sarah on Aug 3, 2009 21:21:04 GMT
Dunno what it is! but sure is pretty xx
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Post by leadwellie on Aug 9, 2009 22:59:04 GMT
its a flowering plant peek whatdid the packet say
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Post by Peek on Aug 10, 2009 6:30:02 GMT
its a flowering plant peek whatdid the packet say Thank you Ken Crowther !! (Essex joke, sorry folks) It says: Perfect Border Filler ( Not sure if my Border should eat it though ;D ) Flower Dream A glistening mixture of the easiest white flowered annuals etc etc contains : antirrhinum,calendula, callistephus,centaurea, clarkia,cosmos, CONVOLVULUS ( now that's strange 'cos I amended my spelling up there ^ because Google couldn't find it, but I always knew it as convolvulus), delphinium,and loads more, but not hibiscus ! ;D
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Post by Slowan on Aug 11, 2009 16:22:55 GMT
My first thought was convolvulus - so perhaps it is that.
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Post by Caddi Fuller-Teabags on Aug 22, 2009 3:05:00 GMT
but convoluvus is a darned *WEED*.
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Post by Tigger on Sept 2, 2009 15:14:00 GMT
a weed is just a plant in the wrong place ... except for nettles which are awful all the time!
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 2, 2009 19:16:47 GMT
a picture of the leaves would help identify it more clearly - it looks a lot like hibiscus to me, in terms of the flower, but the petal shape would help.
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Post by Fi on Sept 3, 2009 12:15:56 GMT
I think it's a Lavatera, a very close relative of Hibiscus. Not because of it's physical features, but because it's included in the lists of seeds in "Flower Dream - the white collection" to be found on the web. The two are so similar that some botanists argue that they should all be amalgamated into one genus.
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 3, 2009 13:20:38 GMT
I have exceedingly fond memories (HA!) of digging up an eight foot and a six foot tall lavatera that one of my past boyfriends decided he didn't like. Jeezo...took me best part of a week to remove them both.
We have a big white one at the back door, and next door on both sides has pink - pale on one side and a lovely deep almost purply pink on the other. And, as lavateras are prolific self-seeders, I have free plants on both sides of the garden. I just need to keep lifting them to places where they will be okay to grow.
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