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Old 30-10-2008, 10:17 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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In message , echinosum
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Happymeow;820520 Wrote:
I really hope this is michalia champaca.. i will carry on let it grow
and hopefully as it get better will give me more clue of what it

is....
Here's a picture of some magnolia seedlings, and a michelia is
basically a magnolia. So, you'll have to be very lucky.
http://tinyurl.com/6x3nq3

I think Pam might have got it right with her second guess.

Reminds me of the time I sowed some Meconopsis betonicifolia, blue
poppies. What came up looked rather like birch. But then
"betonicifolia" means "birch-leaved", so I held on hopefully. But of
course it was birch. In fact I grew a few on and still have one of
them, now about 10 feet tall.


Actually, I think that you'll find that betonicifolia means
betony-leaved. Birch-leaved would be betulifolia.

I find my indoor pot-plants occasionally get weeds in them. Even if
the composting killed everything off, I don't think that they keep it
in perfect biological security before packing it.


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