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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..
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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...
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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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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah, they don't just name just any ole thing "Creeping" if it didn't..
I have some in the back, I am just about ready to strangle in the back 40 garden.. I'ts' all over.. I have to get back there, and pull some out and put it on the hill/bank... Just gotta finish 954 projects before I can...
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
WOW! Do you mean to say that I can chop these up & line them out so they'll run together & look like a purple blanket every spring?
You have only 954 projects going? How come you get away with such little numbers? My list keeps growing, cuz the weeds are growing faster than I type, & I can't seem to get outside! I think what I need here is a POWER OUTAGE!)
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Oh yeah Patty, just prepare an area where you want a new clump, like scratch up the soil, loosen it up.... /Then go back to the patch you want to divide.. and pull apart, or take some clippers, or what ever you feel comfortable with..
then place that clump on top of the soil and make sure it has contact with the soil.. maybe fill in some dirt over it, thru the cracks, you'll see where sometimes it gets stretchy limbs, and you can throw dirt right on top...
It will make roots along each and every node where there is a branch like appendage..
quote: You have only 954 projects going? How come you get away with such little numbers? My list keeps growing, cuz the weeds are growing faster than I type, & I can't seem to get outside! I think what I need here is a POWER OUTAGE!)
That's tooooo funny, I know exactly what you mean.. Truelyyyyy I do.... It's such a nice day out side, just perfect, GOD couldn't have made a better day than today, and I'm inside typin'.. But I just can't stay away....
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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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Ok guys, this has been on my mind because I KNOW I've see it! Anyway, today at lunch I was flipping thru a seed catalogue, and there it was!! Could this mystery plant be Silene (catchfly)??? Sure looks similar...
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Kinda looks like a different collor of this which is a mystery to me too..
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I have no clue Just posted it in a different mystery thread.. its a bush that is all I know. It is white though!
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The link didn't work for me for some reason Netty.
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Sorry about that link! It works for me but I'll see if I can find another one. I notice that when searching I found it referred to as "Sweet William Catchfly"
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SpringFeaver, WOW! That sure does look like an albino version of my mystery Avitar blossom, doesn't it?! Now, if it comes in purple, we might have the answer nailed!!
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| Seeded: 66.31.21.34
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Shoot, I thought I had already guessed bacopa. I was watering in one of the greenhouses awhile back and remember thinking how much the bacopa looked like your lovely unnamed avatar, but I thought I had already ruled that out!
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