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Could this be the same thing? I think it is, but I still don't know what it is! It's a low growing bush type plant... almost a ground cover, that's out by my driveway! It's at the end of the yard where I don't normally pull the hose out to, so I know it's draught tolerant because it's been there for 2 years that I know of, & hardly ever gets watered during our scorching summers! (Funny, I don't remember flowers on it last year... of course, I wasn't paying much attention to flowers then, either!)
I'm thinking "Heather", but the Heather I've seen before was about 2 feet tall & had woody stems, & I have no idea if it flowered or not.
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Patty, the avatar looks like a wildflower that pops up in my lawn (which I do mow around it !)
The stuff in your driveway is like gardencrazy said, phlox sublata, or creeping phlox. It is one of my all time favorite flowers . It puts on a great show in the spring, looks great in masses of different colors, I've got purple, dark pink, light pink, white, and my fav candy stripe (pink and white stripes). It requires such little care and like you said very drought tolerant, so I can put it down front where I never get to with the hose.
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No to the Jacob's Ladder.... No to the fmn's... and the second one Mel posted looked in the same type sorta....... but Patty's flower has 5 petals, the one you posted has only 4.....
The first one Mel posted is what it sounds like to me, sorta... I think my neighbor gets them.. but if I remember correctly..... those one's have some kind of stripe thru them from the center out..
Mel do you have any pictures of the one in your lawn???
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Right Weezie, I noticed also the five petal/four petal difference , and yet they are so similar besides that! Mine aren't blooming yet, usually late spring, but when they do I'll post a pic if they look any different from the ones on the site I linked to.
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Jamie, yes, that's one of Bill's avatars. If you look up at my first post here, you'll see that it's dated Feb 8th.... Apparently, NOBODY knows what it is, because when I noticed those flowers in my yard this week, I had to scrounge around to find this topic & bring it back up front on April 1st!
If nobody comes up with a name for my avatar, I think I'll just name it, myself! I don't know what I'll do for a botanical name, cuz Latin is "Greek" to me!
My Garden club meets tomorrow & there will be a number of Master Gardeners there... I'm taking a branch off the bush in the second post, to have them ID it for me... I know I'm not the only one in town with this plant, so somebody will know!
quote:Originally posted by melcon6: Patty, the avatar looks like a wildflower that pops up in my lawn (which I do mow around it !)
The stuff in your driveway is like gardencrazy said, phlox sublata, or creeping phlox. It is one of my all time favorite flowers . It puts on a great show in the spring, looks great in masses of different colors, I've got purple, dark pink, light pink, white, and my fav candy stripe (pink and white stripes). It requires such little care and like you said very drought tolerant, so I can put it down front where I never get to with the hose.
Patty, Gardencrazy and I did ID your driveway flowers!
Take a picture of your avatar for the garden club ladies to ID
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I agree with Gardencrazy/Donna and Mel's reply to the driveway one... creeping phlox....
And NO still to the forget~me~nots being the avatar one... The shape of the flower petals is just not the same.. it's close, it's in the ballpark, but definately not the same... at least to my eyeballs..
bbbbbbbbb Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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I think you nailed the Avatar, Princess... the photo you put up sure looks like it! The centers of the driveway flowers don't look the same as those in the Avatar picture, & I wasn't sure if that was due to lighting, or the age of the blossoms, or one of those things that sometimes change the appearance of a flower ...but your Forget-me-not is it, exactly! Thanks!
As for the ones by my driveway, the ladies at the Garden club meeting said it was Creeping phlox, as Gardencrazy & Mel had thought. Thanks, all! (I just wish it would stay in bloom longer... It's getting prettier every day!)
Weezie, what is the flower you just posted? It looks like your own photo (judging from the date on the picture), & also looks like those flowers are on a bush. The leaves are a little close, but they almost look like Hydrangea leaves. (Beautiful color!)
At this point, we have THREE mystery flowers on this thread!
quote: I really don't think it is the same flower.
We're talking about the Avatar now, right? (Not my driveway flower.)
Gardencrazy, I couldn't get your link to work, but you say PINK forget-me not? I always thought that they were ONLY blue, & I have blue ones in my yard, but they're not up yet.
So, if forget-me-nots come in pink & blue, I'm thinking they could come in purple, as well! (The blossom itself, & even the center in Princess's photo looks SOOO close!)
quote:Originally posted by Patty S: Gardencrazy, I couldn't get your link to work, but you say PINK forget-me not? I always thought that they were ONLY blue, & I have blue ones in my yard, but they're not up yet.
Forget~me~nots come in blue, pink, white, and purple...
And when I first started doing stuff in this back yard... I FOUND A NEW VARIETY...... IT WAS PINK W/ A BLUE STRIPE DOWN THE MIDDLE.... That was one of the reasons' I started surfing the web for info... I wanted to find a person that could help me propagate it.... but by the time I found somebody remotely able to help, the plant had demised I was going to be rich and famous for having a new breed.. oh well, maybe it'll come back...
bbbbbbbbb Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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WOA! I can't believe how many flowers are fitting in here! They're all so close! (Weezie, I'm really leaning toward that Spring beauty at this point.)
Since the lighting available for pictures can cause the colors to appear in different shades, it's really a hard call. (I've taken pics of a burgundy Iris, both with & without the flash... one caught the true burgundy color, & the other made it look brown; even when I lightened the pic with a photo editor!) I'm just tickled to see all the purple flowers that people are finding here, & that has made this thread so much fun!
Maybe we should combine all these names & come up with one that would encompass them all... such as, "Creeping foroculari scentuft yarrow beauty"!
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