Plant identification
18 August 2024 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeThe mystery plant that I rescued in a half-dead condition from the street appears to be parsley after all, now that it has a bit more moisture to scent its leaves. I have repotted it together with my 'official' parsley (clearly a different variety), which proved to have remarkably little root compared to the much smaller but healthier tap-roots on the new plants -- there were actually half a dozen or so in that small pot, so I can't imagine what the history behind it was. Somebody must surely have sown seed rather than buying a plant from a garden centre or supermarket... but then why throw out the whole pot? Or maybe a fox had picked it up and run off with it...
The second mystery tree seedling which was *not* the bonsai birch (my goodness, that has grown a lot since last year -- not a good thing, for bonsai!), and which I thought might possibly be dogwood because of its coloured juvenile shoots, is starting to look as if it might be a young plum tree. As always, I really cannot imagine how something the size of a plum stone, even from a wild plum which are only a couple of inches long, could *possibly* have found its way into a flower pot and germinated without my seeing it...!
And it also looks as if, only a few days after the first chilli flowers, we actually have the first tiny green chilli nub! The 'smaller' plant has now considerably outsized the original, possibly due to getting better compost in the repotting, and has more flowers on it...
The first blue Swan River daisies of the year appear to have come into flower -- in the wildflower trough, as a couple of scraggy little self-sown plants the existence of which I hadn't even suspected.
The second mystery tree seedling which was *not* the bonsai birch (my goodness, that has grown a lot since last year -- not a good thing, for bonsai!), and which I thought might possibly be dogwood because of its coloured juvenile shoots, is starting to look as if it might be a young plum tree. As always, I really cannot imagine how something the size of a plum stone, even from a wild plum which are only a couple of inches long, could *possibly* have found its way into a flower pot and germinated without my seeing it...!
And it also looks as if, only a few days after the first chilli flowers, we actually have the first tiny green chilli nub! The 'smaller' plant has now considerably outsized the original, possibly due to getting better compost in the repotting, and has more flowers on it...
The first blue Swan River daisies of the year appear to have come into flower -- in the wildflower trough, as a couple of scraggy little self-sown plants the existence of which I hadn't even suspected.