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Mystery flower
21 May 2023 11:03 pmI thought I had identified the mystery plant that popped up in the middle of a pot of sprouting salad on my windowsill as a corn-marigold that had very belatedly germinated from the compost -- but today it opened one of its small round buds and revealed itself to be pink, which rather rules out that possibility!
It's not a pink Swan River daisy, because the leaves are all wrong. Maybe a single pink chrysanthemum? They do look remarkably like corn-marigolds.
Or maybe pink Cosmos? Either way it must have migrated in through the open window from someone else's garden, which is quite a feat...
Edit: Apparently it's a dwarf Argyranthemum frutescens, or garden marguerite:
( Basil )
( Not a strawberry )
( First flowers )
The pak choi is still flowering in a very pretty way and has some decent-sized seedpods on it. I don't really have enough room to plant another crop for eating purposes, unfortunately, now that all my other seedlings are reaching the stage of needing potting up! The honesty has finished flowering and is now covered in currently-purple sixpences :)
It's not a pink Swan River daisy, because the leaves are all wrong. Maybe a single pink chrysanthemum? They do look remarkably like corn-marigolds.
Or maybe pink Cosmos? Either way it must have migrated in through the open window from someone else's garden, which is quite a feat...
Edit: Apparently it's a dwarf Argyranthemum frutescens, or garden marguerite:
( Basil )
( Not a strawberry )
( First flowers )
The pak choi is still flowering in a very pretty way and has some decent-sized seedpods on it. I don't really have enough room to plant another crop for eating purposes, unfortunately, now that all my other seedlings are reaching the stage of needing potting up! The honesty has finished flowering and is now covered in currently-purple sixpences :)