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What kind of flowers are these?
Post a photo, guess the answer
anyone know?
marigolds?
African Marigolds..
That was way too easy. Marigolds are common as mud. What's this one?
reminisant of Wisteria.. but the colour looks too dark..
Where has Sarabyrds comment gone???
Probably a Moderator!!
Where has Sarabyrds comment gone???
Probably a Moderator!!
Ii think bougainvilla
thanks! I'm a flower retard so it was hard for me :]
Jeremy has it. Damn he's quick. How about this one?
Hibiscus?
I guess not. The shrub is too big.
I guess not. The shrub is too big.
Nope, Hibiscus are huge flowers with long stamen. Very easy to spot. Hint: this shrub grows in a lot of the same places the Bougainvillea does.
As do Hibiscus, come to think of it. Okay, another hint to post #9 - it's poisonous.
This is a Hibiscus:
[img]http://z.about.com/d/healing/1/0/4/S/feg_hibiscus.jpg[/img]
As do Hibiscus, come to think of it. Okay, another hint to post #9 - it's poisonous.
This is a Hibiscus:
[img]http://z.about.com/d/healing/1/0/4/S/feg_hibiscus.jpg[/img]
oleander?
Yes, it's oleander, I thought of it now too.
QUOTE (DDBug @ Jun 4 2007, 9:25 pm) 
oleander?
The prize goes to DDBug. You or Jeremy can post the next one. I'm all out for the moment.
You or Jeremy can post the next one. I'm all out for the moment.
I'm from a friggin desert ! Let me research that (I only knew the oleanders from the couple years I lived in Pheonix as a kid and the teenagers were trying to make tea out of them )
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ok, this will be way too easy for anyone with a brain
Actually the same flower, just different places. (Told you I'm from a desert).
Actually the same flower, just different places. (Told you I'm from a desert).
God thats a fantastic oleander. We have four on our terrace and they're not that good!
Jeremy, keep your kids and pets away from the oleander. One leaf could kill a kid. management of oleander poisioning
Davies
QUOTE
The nerium and yellow oleander are both poisonous plants. Accidental poisoning can occur by ingestion (as little as one leaf of the nerium oleander may be lethal in children), by inhalation of smoke from burning oleander, or from the use of medical preparations from the leaves of oleander which have been used as treatments for malaria, leprosy, venereal diseases, and to induce abortions. Deliberate poisoning has been recorded in suicide attempts and in criminal cases. The American Association of Poison Control Centres received 3873 reports of oleander exposure between 1991 and 1995 (Clin Chemistry 1996;42:1654-8). Oleander is also used as an animal poison, which is best illustrated by its role as a rat poison. All parts of the nerium oleander are poisonous, primarily due to the contained cardiac glycosides---that is, oleandrin, nerin, digitoxigenin, and olinerin of which oleandrin is the principal toxin.
Davies
Does anyone know the English name for this one? I don't. It's called Blaukissen here. Makes a lovely ground cover though, and blooms all summer long.
[img]http://www.rausche.de/Garten/Flora/sonstige/blaukissen.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.rausche.de/Garten/Flora/sonstige/blaukissen.jpg[/img]
Aren't those wild violets?
Looks a lot like wild violets. Also reminiscent of forget-me-nots, but they bloom much more thickly.
I wonder if Jeremy has rushed off to dispose of his oleander?...
Creeping Flox.
Yeah, Creeping Flox looks right when I google it. Good Eurovol. Thanks.
This one was perfuming the air all over Munich last month. I love the fragrance. Can you name it?
[img]http://k43.pbase.com/u26/cheetha/large/43806142.acacia.jpg[/img]
This one was perfuming the air all over Munich last month. I love the fragrance. Can you name it?
[img]http://k43.pbase.com/u26/cheetha/large/43806142.acacia.jpg[/img]
Kat I must admit I will relocate them sometime. Luckly Boy doesnt put things so much in his mouth anymore.
Isn't it aubretia, the Blaukissen?
Creeping flox looks a bit different, me thinks... like this:
Or is it the same thing?
What say you green-fingered Jeremy?
Creeping flox looks a bit different, me thinks... like this:
Or is it the same thing?
What say you green-fingered Jeremy?
They look like the English "Forget me not"
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Creeping Flox actually comes in several varieties. Not sure what its real name is and what is photoed could be of the same family.
Alpine Forget me not (Myosotis alpestris), It was so easy to cheat on that one.
No, I don't think so, though they're certainly related. The German's call Forget-me-nots something like Vergiss-mein-nicht, and Forget-me-nots don't cover themselves in that full cushion of blooms. The Blaukissen is more likely the Allysum or the aubretia. The Flox also looks too leggy to be quite the same.
QUOTE (Kat @ Jun 4 2007, 9:45 pm)
Does anyone know the English name for this one? I don't. It's called Blaukissen here. Makes a lovely ground cover though, and blooms all summer long.
[img]http://www.rausche.de/Garten/Flora/sonstige/blaukissen.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.rausche.de/Garten/Flora/sonstige/blaukissen.jpg[/img]
Is it not Lobelia?
Wet-the-beds
At least that's what the guy that took the photo calls them.
I didn't mean to be insulting, I just thought this would be a piece of cake to figure out if you looked at my profile and googled.
Apologies all around.
Actually, I never really considered it a real flower myself though. Looks like a grassy weed to me.
Apologies all around.
QUOTE (DDBug @ Jun 4 2007, 9:33 pm)
ok, this will be way too easy for anyone with a brain
Actually the same flower, just different places. (Told you I'm from a desert).
Actually the same flower, just different places. (Told you I'm from a desert).
Actually, I never really considered it a real flower myself though. Looks like a grassy weed to me.
The botanical name for creeping phlox, also known as flowering moss, is Phlox stolonifera. The Germans refer to this kind of flower as Flammenblume (which would actually seem like a more apt name for DDBug's flowers above!).
The Blaukissen is definitely aubretia - I checked!
The Blaukissen is definitely aubretia - I checked!
They look to be a relative of the Campion family as I know them in English.
Jeremy, as far as I know, campion is usually pink, abundant in hedgerows, woods and, where I come from, cliff edges! Botanical name is silene dioica. There is a white version too, but apparently rare.
Looks like this:
Looks like this:
Genau woman. So I am wrong this time? Can'T get them all. Funny thing is although I am studying Horticulture (or will be again now Daughter is back in Kindergarten) I have TONS to learn about plants. Very intersing subject this.
Now get out in the garden! That bright thing is shining again!
Now get out in the garden! That bright thing is shining again!
Um this one?
Bird of paradise?
Yep, otherwise known as strilitzia, member of the banana family!
Extra points to the one who comes up with both the common and the latin names.
[img]http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/images/foxglove.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/images/foxglove.jpg[/img]
Foxglove, I think. I had to look up the Latin name - Digitalis purpurea. Is that right?
When I were a wee lad, an even younger neighbor girl liked to nibble on the leaves* of foxglove. She said it gave her a rush!@!@#
Not surprisingly, she grew up to be quite the addict.
*Don't do this at home. Digitalis is the active ingredient in some heart medicines and can seriously mess up your heart.
Not surprisingly, she grew up to be quite the addict.
*Don't do this at home. Digitalis is the active ingredient in some heart medicines and can seriously mess up your heart.
This one, native to Bavaria. Calling all Bavarians on this forum(but for Tom_a who should know the answer from a previous pm I send him).
Frauenschuh (says this Scouser)
Well done, English Rose!
hee hee, most Scousers are very far from being roses...
Lady's slipper, I should have added.
Lady's slipper, I should have added.
My mother taught me that you can change the colour of this particular flora by adjusting the amount of lime in the soil around it.
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