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Wildflower ID?
I have a bunch of these all over, with lovely purple-pink blossoms.
What are they? My wild garlic is blooming, too. -- Karen |
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Karen Kay wrote in
0: I have a bunch of these all over, with lovely purple-pink blossoms. What are they? My wild garlic is blooming, too. Time to go to sleep! I forgot to include the link: http://www.rahul.net/karen/plant.png Thanks for your help. -- Karen |
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Karen Kay wrote:
Karen Kay wrote in 0: I have a bunch of these all over, with lovely purple-pink blossoms. What are they? My wild garlic is blooming, too. Time to go to sleep! I forgot to include the link: http://www.rahul.net/karen/plant.png Red clover? -sw |
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:52:12 GMT, Karen Kay wrote:
Karen Kay wrote in 50: I have a bunch of these all over, with lovely purple-pink blossoms. What are they? My wild garlic is blooming, too. Time to go to sleep! I forgot to include the link: http://www.rahul.net/karen/plant.png Thanks for your help. _Oxalis drummondii_, a native wood-sorrel. Delicate and tough as nails. |
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"Terry Horton" wrote in message ... | On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:52:12 GMT, Karen Kay wrote: | | Karen Kay wrote in | 50: | I have a bunch of these all over, with lovely purple-pink | blossoms. What are they? My wild garlic is blooming, too. | | Time to go to sleep! I forgot to include the link: | http://www.rahul.net/karen/plant.png | | Thanks for your help. | | _Oxalis drummondii_, a native wood-sorrel. Delicate and tough as | nails. And a good old-fashioned garden plant. They'll grow in the shade. They die back when it's hot, after blooming in the spring, and then return again about this time of year. You'll see similar plants with yellow flowers--those are also a form of oxalis, and really quite pretty, but most people regard the yellow sorrel as weeds. They always die back in the heat as well. |
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: "Terry Horton" wrote in message ... | _Oxalis drummondii_, a native wood-sorrel. Delicate and tough | as nails. Thanks. I was guessing some kind of oxalis, but wasn't sure. And a good old-fashioned garden plant. They'll grow in the shade. They die back when it's hot, after blooming in the spring, and then return again about this time of year. You'll see similar plants with yellow flowers--those are also a form of oxalis, and really quite pretty, but most people regard the yellow sorrel as weeds. They always die back in the heat as well. There are advantages to not mowing your lawn. -- Karen |
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"Karen Kay" wrote in message 0... | "Texensis" wrote in | : | "Terry Horton" wrote in message | ... | | _Oxalis drummondii_, a native wood-sorrel. Delicate and tough | | as nails. | | Thanks. I was guessing some kind of oxalis, but wasn't sure. | | And a good old-fashioned garden plant. They'll grow in the | shade. They die back when it's hot, after blooming in the | spring, and then return again about this time of year. You'll | see similar plants with yellow flowers--those are also a form of | oxalis, and really quite pretty, but most people regard the | yellow sorrel as weeds. They always die back in the heat as | well. | | There are advantages to not mowing your lawn. | -- | Karen No kidding! Since pink oxalis doesn't move much (unless squirrels have been at work), where they are located usually will tell you something about a yard's original layout. |
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"Texensis" wrote in
: "Karen Kay" wrote in message 0... | There are advantages to not mowing your lawn. No kidding! Since pink oxalis doesn't move much (unless squirrels have been at work), where they are located usually will tell you something about a yard's original layout. What do you mean? I know that it's spread a lot from last year, in fact--or maybe it's just showing more, because of all the rain. But I don't understand what it would tell me about the yard. I don't know if any of my wildflowers were planted or random. The woman who built these gardens seems to me to have been more a formal garden person than a wildflower person, but I have great wildflowers. -- Karen |
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"Karen Kay" wrote in message 0... | "Texensis" wrote in | : | "Karen Kay" wrote in message | 0... | | There are advantages to not mowing your lawn. | | No kidding! Since pink oxalis doesn't move much (unless | squirrels have been at work), where they are located usually | will tell you something about a yard's original layout. | | What do you mean? I know that it's spread a lot from last year, in | fact--or maybe it's just showing more, because of all the rain. But | I don't understand what it would tell me about the yard. | | I don't know if any of my wildflowers were planted or random. The | woman who built these gardens seems to me to have been more a | formal garden person than a wildflower person, but I have great | wildflowers. | -- | Karen Pink oxalis will divide and grow where it is (get thicker to the point where you may want to move it), but generally someone has planted it (or a squirrel has) where you find it. But for squirrels, its location isn't happenstance and is often of long standing. I suppose that it's in commerce somewhere. People I know obtain it either from a friend who has an old garden, as a pass-along plant, or find it already existing in their yard. No matter how long it has been there, usually it has been deliberately planted where you find it. In older gardens you'll notice that people seem often to have planted it to encircle the trunk of a live oak, e.g. Where it is will tell you something about how the ground was laid out in the past and what has grown up since around it. What I've noticed is that the oxalis in a less favorable location will go dormant and not appear at all sometimes for a year or two, but then in a year of rain it will reappear, exactly where it has always been. |
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