Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant pictures in
the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out. It
grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6 foot plus
by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs, and burst into
flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main stem, feathery leaves,
and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring if
it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when most
other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F


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On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

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Try Cosmos

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nurseries.co.uk says...

On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

Well, Charles, that's a good try for your first-ever usenet post to a
gardening group.


Try Cosmos

The photo looks like cosmos.
However that would not fit with "loads of bulbs" and his ability to
look up "molopommesia peloponnesiacum" which google has never heard of
and won't even take a guess at.... so I suggest it's a new form of
Trollius lunifoolia.
Plant it deep and mulch well with manure.
Janet

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On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

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Yes, that looks like it - and cosmos likes poor soil and heat - both of
which it got this summer.

Thanks!

Charles F


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In article , david@abacus-
nurseries.co.uk says...

On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant
pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main
stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower
colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

Well, Charles, that's a good try for your first-ever usenet post to a
gardening group.


Try Cosmos

The photo looks like cosmos.
However that would not fit with "loads of bulbs" and his ability to
look up "molopommesia peloponnesiacum" which google has never heard of
and won't even take a guess at.... so I suggest it's a new form of
Trollius lunifoolia.
Plant it deep and mulch well with manure.
Janet

I think that cosmos is right though. Hadn't spotted that the spellchecker
had converted my attempt at "buds" into bulbs!

Charles F





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On 2014-10-29 12:48:00 +0000, Charles F said:

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On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

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Try Cosmos

Yes, that looks like it - and cosmos likes poor soil and heat - both of
which it got this summer.

Thanks!

Charles F

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Certainly Cosmos which is a most attractive plant. There's a lovely
white one called 'Purity', too. I wonder if the plant you saw was
Molopospermum peloponnesiacum? It's nothing like Cosmos so perhaps
you've mis-remembered, or the plant you saw was next door to the
jawbreaker! You might have taken one label for another's plant.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

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On 2014-10-29 12:48:00 +0000, Charles F said:

"David" wrote in message
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On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant
pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main
stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower
colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

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Try Cosmos

Yes, that looks like it - and cosmos likes poor soil and heat - both of
which it got this summer.

Thanks!

Charles F

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Certainly Cosmos which is a most attractive plant. There's a lovely white
one called 'Purity', too. I wonder if the plant you saw was Molopospermum
peloponnesiacum? It's nothing like Cosmos so perhaps you've
mis-remembered, or the plant you saw was next door to the jawbreaker! You
might have taken one label for another's plant.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

Hi Sacha, I suspect that your last guess was indeed the case.

Thanks for the white version though - we'll look out for that.

Charles F





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On 29/10/2014 10:47, David wrote:
On 29/10/2014 10:09, Charles F wrote:
Good morning all,

As per title, I wonder if anyone has some ideas about the plant pictures
in the following link?

http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/CharlesJF/library/

It was bought at a local fair in the spring, un-named, and planted out.
It grew steadily, did nothing particularly interesting, and reached 6
foot plus by the end of the summer. This month it grew loads of bulbs,
and burst into flower as in the photos. It has a single stiff main stem,
feathery leaves, and had tight dark red buds about 12 to 14mm diameter
before flowering

At Wisley RHS I spotted a molopommesia peloponnesiacum, which looked
similar, and had the same bud formation - not flowering at the time.
However, looking it up this doesn't seem a good match for flower colour,
plant size, etc. Googling for characteristics hasn't got me very far
either.

We'd like to keep it, if it's a perennial, or get another in the spring
if it is an annual, as it's a welcome splash of colour at a time when
most other plants are heading for winter.

Thanks for your help,

Charles F

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Try Cosmos

Specifically Cosmos bipinnatus.

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Stewart Robert Hinsley

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:37:15 -0000, Janet wrote:

"molopommesia peloponnesiacum" which google has never heard of
and won't even take a guess at

Janet I think you do the OP an injustice: http://tinyurl.com/oe6hf4a

which is Molopospermum peloponnesiacum.

The name he posted was molopommesia

Janet

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Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

"molopommesia peloponnesiacum" which google has never heard of
and won't even take a guess at

Janet I think you do the OP an injustice: http://tinyurl.com/oe6hf4a

which is Molopospermum peloponnesiacum.

The name he posted was molopommesia

Which is exactly the sort of mistake a mere human would make.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.