Flower of the Day for a year - a Challenge!

[roitelet]

Another little self sown Viola Cornuta quite different from the first one. Much lighter and without quite such marked whiskers.

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This plant has stopped flowering now but small clumps of grass like leaves remain. I was given several of these plants earlier in the year but have no idea what they are called. I’m hoping someone can provide the answer. They stand only about 8 inches high including the flowers but were stunning in front of other plants.

[veggiechicken]

^^^ Its one of the Armerias - probably Maritima - commonly known as Thrift. It used to be on the back of the old many-sided 3d bits. https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/disc...species/thrift

My Flower is this little fuchsia - maybe it should have been planted in a pot or basket. I don't think its intended for the wild open spaces of my garden.

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Thank you - Veggie - your knowledge humbles me.

[roitelet]

This one is a slight cheat. Delosperma Cooperi. I have a magneta one that I planted in a falling down flint wall some years ago which is doing well. This one and another one, Orange, I found a couple of weeks ago in a garden centre and these have now been planted in the same wall so it is actually growing in my garden. I’m sure it has a common name but I don’t know what it is.

[veggiechicken]

Thank you - Veggie - your knowledge humbles me.

I only know that one because I used to grow it. I'm also old enough to remember 3d bits (but not as old as rary)
Its quite easy from seed and you have some seed heads ready, I think?

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Yes there a lot of seed heads. I shall collect seed for the seed swap later this year.

[rary]

I need to know what 3d bits are before I can answer you about my age, are they the same as those films where I need special glasses to see it properly

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Primula Candelabra- taken this morning. This of course shouldn’t be happening - these plants flower in spring. This patch of primula were plug plants which I bought last spring and they have grown well. A few flowered earlier this year but as one would expect the flowers were not the two foo high stalks of several tiers of flowers which I expect next spring. Hence their name ‘candelabra.’ Not sure if I should let this late flower grow or cut it off.

[veggiechicken]

My Flower is a Cranesbill that I think is "Ann Folkard". Its good ground cover with long trailing stems that also clamber up into any bushes in its way. Its just started flowering this week.



This is the plant as ground cover.

[rary]

my flower for today is a fuchsia, I don't know the name as the name tag got blown away last week with the high winds, I have also included a tub of begonias for yesterday




Both tubs are broken as they were blown off the wall they were sitting on

[roitelet]

A little Scabious today, self sown from the blue one behind it. It’s come out pink!

[roitelet]

Another Michelmas daisy, Jenny. Medium height this one.

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A rather sheepish orange oriental poppy. Yet another example this year of a second bout of flowering or an out of season flowering. This plant had been cut back hard earlier this year after flowering but is so full of life it has decided to make another curtain call.

Folks- i’m off to Alicante tomorrow. Grass has been cut, garden tidied and all of the bird feeders filled. Catch up with you all again soon.

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Another Michelmas daisy, Jenny. Medium height this one.

How vibrant these daisies are Roitelet - very beautiful.