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What is this flowering plant? White flowers, Chrysanthemum?
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: What is this flowering plant? White flowers, Chrysanthemum? |
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we have lived in this house for 3 summers now and this plant keeps coming up near my blackberries. It could be a weed or might have been planted there years ago. Anyone know what this is? i was thinking it was some kind of Chrysanthemum.
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Pianolady
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Possibly Hardy Geranium 'Album'?
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks...looks like other images online! I think I might relocate it into a flower bed, now that I know it isn't a weed!
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EJ
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Looks more like Lavatera to me, commonly known as Mallow, often pink, but also in white.....
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking along the lines of EJ... a Lavatera or possibly a malva. I'm leaning more towards a malva, as it looks a bit like one I saw a few weeks ago.
The Malva moschata 'alba'.
It's a bit difficult for me to see those flowers, as the sunlight is reflecting somewhat harshly.
If you take another foto use an umbrella to shade the plant or take it in the very late afternoon.
I get this same problem with my daisies and white Phlox.
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: |
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It looks a more like the geranium album then the lavatera or the Malva moschata 'alba, the leaves are wrong on the later two.
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Droopy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: |
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I agree with Sjoerd, it's White Musk Mallow. Both blooms and foliage looks like the one we had here.
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stratsmom
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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It is a beautiful thing. I love that lacy foliage.
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cajunbelle
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: |
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I agree re the seed pods it is definitely in the Malvaceae family. How about saving some seeds, I could trade some of my yellow hardy Hibiscus.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: |
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| cajunbelle wrote: | | I agree re the seed pods it is definitely in the Malvaceae family. How about saving some seeds, I could trade some of my yellow hardy Hibiscus. |
I will see what I can do. I have never harvested seeds before. I hope the plant is still doing well. It rained hard for 24 hours yesterday and sometimes extremely hard.
Any help in harvesting the seeds would be great!
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Well, I would wait until the stem (or at least the seedpods) are dry and brown.
Then I would carefully cut the stem and place the stem upside-down in a paper bag and just hang it up somewhere dry...and wait. Eventually the pods will split open and the seeds will fall out and into the bottom of the paper bag.
I would suggest that you store the seeds in a paper bag as well, as opposed to a plastic one, because any remaining moisture in the seeds could cause some 'sweating' with ensuing mould colony formation.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Sjoerd wrote: | Well, I would wait until the stem (or at least the seedpods) are dry and brown.
Then I would carefully cut the stem and place the stem upside-down in a paper bag and just hang it up somewhere dry...and wait. Eventually the pods will split open and the seeds will fall out and into the bottom of the paper bag.
I would suggest that you store the seeds in a paper bag as well, as opposed to a plastic one, because any remaining moisture in the seeds could cause some 'sweating' with ensuing mould colony formation. |
Thanks for help I will try this with these flowers as well as some of my poppies.
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