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Plants that are not
10 April 2023 12:04 pmThe plant that is not a strawberry is continuing to bear an ever-increasing resemblance to a strawberry plant.
I have checked, and it is definitely not cinquefoil (five-lobed leaves) or mock strawberry (yellow flowers) -- there doesn't seem to be any easy way to check whether it is a true wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca, or not until it actually fruits, but it does seem unlikely. It's far more probable that it is simply an ordinary domesticated strawberry, save for the single puzzling fact that I only had one strawberry plant and this definitely isn't it!
The plant that isn't a hollyhock has opened its first flower and proved to be honesty (Lunaria), which I completely failed to recognise at ankle-height and without its distinctive white discs :-D
I'm now pretty sure that none of the seedlings in the basil tray in the mini-greenhouse are, in fact, basil, and I don't think the weedy long-leafed seedlings in the outdoors towel-tomatoes pot are tomatoes either (probably shoo-fly - which would at least save me the trouble of sowing those!) On the other hand, the indoors ones I sowed a week ago are now germinating, so far as I can tell, although I strongly suspect that the first seedling to have appeared in that pot is in fact yet another calendula which emerged up the side of the towelling. For such relatively large and obvious seeds, they really do seem to be amazingly good at appearing in unexpected places...
I have checked, and it is definitely not cinquefoil (five-lobed leaves) or mock strawberry (yellow flowers) -- there doesn't seem to be any easy way to check whether it is a true wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca, or not until it actually fruits, but it does seem unlikely. It's far more probable that it is simply an ordinary domesticated strawberry, save for the single puzzling fact that I only had one strawberry plant and this definitely isn't it!
The plant that isn't a hollyhock has opened its first flower and proved to be honesty (Lunaria), which I completely failed to recognise at ankle-height and without its distinctive white discs :-D
I'm now pretty sure that none of the seedlings in the basil tray in the mini-greenhouse are, in fact, basil, and I don't think the weedy long-leafed seedlings in the outdoors towel-tomatoes pot are tomatoes either (probably shoo-fly - which would at least save me the trouble of sowing those!) On the other hand, the indoors ones I sowed a week ago are now germinating, so far as I can tell, although I strongly suspect that the first seedling to have appeared in that pot is in fact yet another calendula which emerged up the side of the towelling. For such relatively large and obvious seeds, they really do seem to be amazingly good at appearing in unexpected places...