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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 17, 2011 16:02:53 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Aug 17, 2011 16:35:45 GMT
I think that's a Brugmansia, I was taught that Datura flowers point upward whereas Brugmansia point towards the ground. You can call them Devil's Trumpets and avoid the issue. Beautiful plant nevertheless.
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Post by bjd on Aug 17, 2011 17:25:58 GMT
Definitely a Brugmansia. One of its products is called escopolamina in Spanish. A guy I know was knocked out with some in his food in S American. Fortunately, not with a lethal dose.
In fact, I even heard the plant called escopolamina, so it's definitely known for that there.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 17, 2011 18:57:25 GMT
However, it used to be a Datura when I started to grow it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 19, 2011 11:54:29 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2011 14:51:10 GMT
Gosh, those are nice pictures -- studies in composition, every one. And the flowers are gorgeous, too! I don't have any cosmos nor morning glories this year, & really miss them. And I've never grown dahlias. Your photos of them are very seductive.
I dunno, tho ...... the first pic makes me think you're controlling my mind from afar.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 20, 2011 17:49:57 GMT
You are feeling va-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-r-y sle-e-e-e-e-epy.... ;D
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2011 9:52:28 GMT
Is that maybe a cranesbill geranium in the upper right of the larkspur picture? You are looking at those leaves, bixa? Could be. If one had been blooming, though, I'd have photographed it. Maybe this week. Good eye! Bixa was right:
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2011 9:55:46 GMT
Some other wild bloomers at the lake cottage last month: Shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla sp.) Lupine Penstemon
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2011 9:58:59 GMT
And some from last week: I decapitated 100's if not 1000's of these thistles to keep them from going to seed. Last summer we were too busy building to address the weeds and we are paying for it in spades this year.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2011 10:04:38 GMT
Some non-weed flowers from last week: Asters Wild Buckwheat More buckwheat, but pink-tinged mystery plant in bud, perhaps related to goldenrod? and in bloom, and still a mystery! Yarrow Harebell
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Post by tod2 on Aug 23, 2011 14:53:39 GMT
Lovely and interesting photos Kimby! What a fantastic pink that thistle is!
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2011 15:24:17 GMT
I should have taken a photo of the 100's of thistle flower heads in the trash bag. Quite lovely, but despicable seed-dispersers!
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Post by fumobici on Aug 23, 2011 23:20:52 GMT
Loving the flower pictures Kimby, very naturalistic. Even the cultivated ones look like they weren't plantings.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 24, 2011 2:32:20 GMT
Thanks fumo. None of my recent postings in this thread are cultivated. All wild, at the lake cottage.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 25, 2011 2:18:31 GMT
Wonderful flowers & wonderful pictures, Kimby. That goldenrod-y plant is intriguing. Do you think it's actually a type of goldenrod? Does wild buckwheat yield an edible grain? Most of your flowers are exotica for me. I imagine you hate the thistles right now, but your thistle photo is gorgeous.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 25, 2011 17:44:18 GMT
bixa, I thought it was a goldenrod (Solidago sp.) when I took the picture, but was less sure when I posted it.
The buckwheat is actually in the Polygonaceae family and is an Eriogonum. Not sure which one. I haven't heard much about edible uses, but you've got me wondering so will check my edible plants guide...
So the guide says chipmunks, domestic sheep and some tribes favored it. Nothing about current use.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 27, 2011 2:28:12 GMT
I looked it up, too, & one source said it "has a long history of aboriginal use", but did not expound. Here's the link for that source, which might interest you for the list of butterflies hosted by Erogonum: www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=112045The picture of "real" buckwheat in Wikipedia clearly shows how "wild buckwheat" got its name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat ---------> Here are some things blooming in my patio: First, some white stuff: I'm going to be finding Alyssum coming up all over! Teensy little chiltepin forming in its flower ~~ Beautiful bottle brush-y shrub that blooms tirelessly. Still waiting on an identification! Two garden thugs growing together beautifully ~~ The Chinese hat, blooming its brains out. I LOVE this plant! Megaskepasma (maybe) And finally, fighting fire with fire -- or in this case, dahlia with zinnia -- this is for Cheery:
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Post by Kimby on Aug 27, 2011 13:53:27 GMT
Thanks, bixa. Lovely photos, too. (If anything new is blooming at the lake I'll take pics to post when I return to land of DSL.)
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Post by bjd on Aug 27, 2011 13:57:29 GMT
Well, I just took some pictures in my garden and come on here to post, only to find Bixa's flowers looking so much nicer than mine! Never mind. Here are a few of the flowers blooming right now. We had some terrible heat last week, and heavy rain yesterday, so some are looking a bit droopy (excuses, excuses). Some dahlias
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Post by bjd on Aug 27, 2011 14:00:46 GMT
Gaillarda Verveine in French Lantana Lysanthium
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Post by bjd on Aug 27, 2011 14:04:19 GMT
Myrtlebush (?) bought this year Oleander Alstromeria Don't remember the name Coreopsis
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Post by bjd on Aug 27, 2011 14:07:51 GMT
Anémone du Japon (in French)
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 27, 2011 14:21:45 GMT
Ha -- I think your stuff looks tons better than mine! For one thing, you'll note how artfully I showed individual flowers. There's a reason for that. Your drifts of color are wonderful. And I can see all kinds of things in bud behind the portraits of individual flowers. Those are some gorgeous colors you have. The first dahlia and the alstromeria are particularly lovely shades. I think that Anémone du Japon is as elegant any peony, too.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 27, 2011 15:27:54 GMT
Don't remember the name Maybe PLUMBAGO?
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Post by bjd on Aug 27, 2011 16:23:41 GMT
Plumbago is lighter blue.
Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I find it is ceratostigma plumbaginoides, or hardy plumbago. I never managed to grow real plumbago, as much as I like it. One of my neighbours has beautiful bushes. The stuff I have just stays in the ground in winter.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 28, 2011 7:50:49 GMT
bjd - I have three Plumbago's in my garden: dark blue, paler blue and white. Here plumbago grows like a weed and even used as a shield from car headlights when planted in the middle section of our freeways. I planted mine purely as an attraction to butterflies.
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Post by myrt on Aug 29, 2011 19:24:20 GMT
Beautiful beautiful pictures! I have failed miserably with flowers this year as I have concentrated on other areas of gardening. I was particularly interested in the picture and link about Buckwheat. Although we sow it every year in the garden where I work I have never seen its flowers as we use it as a green manure and always dig it in before that stage. It's so pretty I might sow a special patch to leave next year...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 31, 2011 19:12:06 GMT
GORGEOUS..... ;D Jolly lovely the lot of them, especially the zinnia.... that is simply glorious....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 2, 2011 18:00:30 GMT
My favourite bloom in the garden atm....lysanthus (cinderella blue)
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