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ID of purple stranger

La Puce

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting
it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang
on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem
to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for
any info.

http://cjoint.com/?ewry0A40XY

MikeCT

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

"La Puce" <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote:
> Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting
> it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang
> on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem
> to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for
> any info.
>---
Lunaria (Honesty). I have it growing in my garden.

MikeCT

'Mike'

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

"La Puce" <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1177255708.171929.49090@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting
> it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang
> on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem
> to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for
> any info.
>
> http://cjoint.com/?ewry0A40XY
>

:-))

Let it go to seed and dry it :-)) Wonderful for flower arrangements :-))

Mike

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La Puce

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

On 22 Apr, 16:40, "MikeCT" <mik...@virginsnow.net> wrote:
> Lunaria (Honesty). I have it growing in my garden.

Off course!!! Thank you Mike and Mike! I'm an idiot ... honestly.
These are Rusty's seeds would you beleive - I must have just scattered
them along with others 'gift' and totally forgotten. At the lotty at
the back I've got a lot too - why didn't I thought of it? Beats me but
so glad you folks are here. I think I should write down what I osw
because I forget most of the time ... Thanks again.

'Mike'

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

"La Puce" <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1177257404.991321.42550@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On 22 Apr, 16:40, "MikeCT" <mik...@virginsnow.net> wrote:
>
> Off course!!! Thank you Mike and Mike! I'm an idiot ... honestly.
> These are Rusty's seeds would you beleive - I must have just scattered
> them along with others 'gift' and totally forgotten. At the lotty at
> the back I've got a lot too - why didn't I thought of it? Beats me but
> so glad you folks are here. I think I should write down what I osw
> because I forget most of the time ... Thanks again.
>

Aren't you just glad that you haven't 'pretended' to kill file me like one
poor sad old woman on this site?

:-))

Mike

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The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy
www.rneba.org.uk

Anne Jackson

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

The message from La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> contains these words:

> Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting
> it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang
> on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem
> to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for
> any info.

> http://cjoint.com/?ewry0A40XY

Lunaria annua

Also known as Honesty, or Silver Pennies in our garden.

--
AnneJ

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~Rosa Luxemburg

La Puce

2007-04-22, 1:25 pm

On 22 Apr, 17:26, Anne Jackson <amygd...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Lunaria annua
> Also known as Honesty, or Silver Pennies in our garden.

Oy! Keep up at the back! But thank you Anne :o))

How is it up there north north? Any rain?! Got lots today - brilliant!
Hope it last all week but then abruptly stop next Saturday....

Anne Jackson

2007-04-22, 5:25 pm

The message from La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> contains these words:
> On 22 Apr, 17:26, Anne Jackson <amygd...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
[color=darkred]
> Oy! Keep up at the back! But thank you Anne :o))

> How is it up there north north? Any rain?! Got lots today - brilliant!
> Hope it last all week but then abruptly stop next Saturday....

'Dreich' with 'smirry' rain. Not really enough to make a lot of
difference...but I visited the Scottish Rock Garden Society show
yesterday, joined the Society and bought a *whole lot* of plants...
three dozen or more, and I won't tell Bill how much I paid for them!
He'd have a fit! <G>

--
'She'

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~Rosa Luxemburg

La Puce

2007-04-22, 5:25 pm

On 22 Apr, 18:58, Anne Jackson <amygd...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 'Dreich' with 'smirry' rain. Not really enough to make a lot of
> difference...but I visited the Scottish Rock Garden Society show
> yesterday, joined the Society and bought a *whole lot* of plants...
> three dozen or more, and I won't tell Bill how much I paid for them!
> He'd have a fit! <G>

Arghhh... the story of my life ;o) I always say: 'it was a bargain I
tell you, a bargain!!'. It always work. In any case he spends on the
structures and I spend on the research, plants, installation and fun
(not to forget hard labour). I recently spent a bit - he built a new
bike shed and I did the roof garden. Almost a ton of soil up there,
membrane, gravel etc. Hard work to bring the lot up there ... here,
take a look (I'm really really pleased).

http://cjoint.com/?ewwy1yhd8R

Anne Jackson

2007-04-22, 5:25 pm

The message from La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> contains these words:

> On 22 Apr, 18:58, Anne Jackson <amygd...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
[color=darkred]
> Arghhh... the story of my life ;o) I always say: 'it was a bargain I
> tell you, a bargain!!'. It always work. In any case he spends on the
> structures and I spend on the research, plants, installation and fun
> (not to forget hard labour). I recently spent a bit - he built a new
> bike shed and I did the roof garden. Almost a ton of soil up there,
> membrane, gravel etc. Hard work to bring the lot up there ... here,
> take a look (I'm really really pleased).

> http://cjoint.com/?ewwy1yhd8R

A .pdf file? I thought it was never going to open!

Very impressive, though...what have you planted up there?

Won't it dry out terribly in the heat of the summer?

--
'She'

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~Rosa Luxemburg

La Puce

2007-04-23, 9:25 am

On 22 Apr, 22:46, Anne Jackson <amygd...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> A .pdf file? I thought it was never going to open!

Good things comes to those who waits ... ;o)

> Very impressive, though...what have you planted up there?
> Won't it dry out terribly in the heat of the summer?

Green roof retain around 80% of rain fall - hence the fantastic range
of plants we can grow up there. Although it's due south, the sun gets
on it at around 11am and goes at around 2pm, so it's sheltered. The
wind is minimised by the triangle structure, a remnent to the old
garage there and with a large privet, a red cedar and lots of ivy
around it, the roof won't dry out so much. I need a couple of years to
really understand how it will settle really. Also mine is 'a deep
one', 15cm deep, compared to the usual sedum blankets or just grass.
We went for wild flowers too, knautia, camomile, a variety of herbs,
scabious, marjoran, thyme ... woad, marguerites, ragged robins ... and
there's lots of room left. I fancy putting some tomatoes too though
there's not a lot of sun there. It's another place to experiment - I
don't have much room as you can see!!

For those living around Yorkshire there's funding available to built
green roofs - closing date 31st May.

http://www.thegreenroofcentre.co.uk/design10.4.html

> --
> 'She'

:o) 'Her'

John McMillan

2007-04-23, 9:25 am

In article <1177257404.991321.42550@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote:

> On 22 Apr, 16:40, "MikeCT" <mik...@virginsnow.net> wrote:
>
> Off course!!! Thank you Mike and Mike! I'm an idiot ... honestly.
> These are Rusty's seeds would you beleive - I must have just scattered
> them along with others 'gift' and totally forgotten. At the lotty at
> the back I've got a lot too - why didn't I thought of it? Beats me but
> so glad you folks are here. I think I should write down what I osw
> because I forget most of the time ... Thanks again.

I've got loads of Honesty this year, both the purple form
and the white form. And just a few of the variegated leafed
variety. I was very skeptical that this would be variegated from
seed - but it is. Mine came from Bolton Percy churchyard
- but I think Chiltern sells it.

La Puce

2007-04-23, 9:25 am

On 23 Apr, 14:42, John McMillan <j.e.mcmil...@sheffielddot.acdot.uk>
wrote:
> I've got loads of Honesty this year, both the purple form
> and the white form. And just a few of the variegated leafed
> variety. I was very skeptical that this would be variegated from
> seed - but it is. Mine came from Bolton Percy churchyard
> - but I think Chiltern sells it.

White?! I want !!! Can you save me some seeds?

Sacha

2007-04-23, 1:25 pm

On 23/4/07 14:42, in article
j.e.mcmillan-55533D.14422023042007@no-reverse-defined.ja.net, "John
McMillan" <j.e.mcmillan@sheffielddot.acdot.uk> wrote:
<snip>
> I've got loads of Honesty this year, both the purple form
> and the white form. And just a few of the variegated leafed
> variety. I was very skeptical that this would be variegated from
> seed - but it is. Mine came from Bolton Percy churchyard
> - but I think Chiltern sells it.

The white is lovely but harder to find. If you have a white plant, it's
worth saving seed from it because we think the purple starts to cross with
it and take over - not sure of that, mind you but we do have loads of purple
and much less white. Every year I promise myself that I'll mark the white
ones and take the seed and every year, I forget.

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Sacha
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South Devon
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John McMillan

2007-04-24, 9:25 am

In article <1177336061.536806.259730@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23 Apr, 14:42, John McMillan <j.e.mcmil...@sheffielddot.acdot.uk>
> wrote:
>
> White?! I want !!! Can you save me some seeds?

In theory. Of course, by the time its set seed you can't see
what colour the flowers were. And of course the bees cross
pollinate it so some will revert to purple, and some of the
variegated will revert to white. And then its a biennial
so you don't get to find out until this time in 2009.

Chiltern have Lunaria Annua which I suppose is the purple
form, Lunaria Annua var Alba which is the white form and
Lunaria Annua var Variegata which is the variegated white form.
They also have Lunaria Rediviva which is claimed to be
a perennial version - anyone have any success with that?

Perhaps I should mark my plants somehow (?) so that I know
which were which when I come to harvest the seed.

La Puce

2007-04-24, 5:25 pm

On 24 Apr, 14:13, John McMillan <j.e.mcmil...@sheffielddot.acdot.uk>
wrote:
> In theory. Of course, by the time its set seed you can't see
> what colour the flowers were. And of course the bees cross
> pollinate it so some will revert to purple, and some of the
> variegated will revert to white. And then its a biennial
> so you don't get to find out until this time in 2009.

I'll be patient ... This is why I didn't see Rusty's plants last year
and therefore wondered why this plant had grown there. I had
forgotten.

> Chiltern have Lunaria Annua which I suppose is the purple
> form, Lunaria Annua var Alba which is the white form and
> Lunaria Annua var Variegata which is the variegated white form.
> They also have Lunaria Rediviva which is claimed to be
> a perennial version - anyone have any success with that?
>
> Perhaps I should mark my plants somehow (?) so that I know
> which were which when I come to harvest the seed.

Please, try ... It's so much nicer to get free seeds from someone.
It's like a gift. I've made a note in someone else's garden, on our
way to school, where they have lots of white aquilegias. For three
years I kept thinking that I must pick some seeds and kept forgetting
where the white ones where. This year my son's promised to take a
picture, tee hee, but I will have to go and knock on the door.
Thankfully the residents will get involved in a Neighbour's Day I'm
organising on the close behind that house and it will make that task
much more easy :o)

(Neighbour's day is an international event ran by councils for street
party and events to celebrate European Neighbours. This year I'm
running 2, linked with Britain in Bloom. Closing dates is 11th May -
if you are interested www.european-neighbours-day.com. There's 200
pounds available per projects).

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