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I know I should have taken a picture of this.
When we were out today, we stopped at a little parkette to eat sundaes from McDonald's (they're having their two-fer right now).
I always look over all the plants in this parkette.
These flowers are small - the eye is the size of a nickel - it has many little petals (like a daisy). It looks like rich velvet - there were green ones, deep wine, purple - gawd! I wanted those damned things! It was something like having Harrison Ford right here in my living room with my husband out for the evening - y'know?
It was all I could do not to rip the whole thing out by the roots and hustle it home. Of course, I did no such thing.
The outer petals of this eye are like wee fingernails standing on end - I did take one of the flowerheads and dissected it into my scrub pot - those little fingernail things seem to be the seeds - they look like marigold seeds when you take them apart.
I probably won't go down to that spot for at least two weeks - who knows what they are - anyone?
Yes, I'm joking about Harrison Ford.
* * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
| Seeded: 67.43.132.21
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Ha ha! I have to laugh at myself - I went back down to the parkette this afternoon and looked at the same flowers - they have opened some petals - they are ordinary coneflowers.
* * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
| Seeded: 64.7.146.189
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