This was a lot of work but it was worth it. Having only the Latin names for the flowers in my wildflower mix I hunted them all down on the internet. Oddly, some seem to have no 'everyday' name - only the Latin. I can only upload 10 files in a single post - the rest will come later today or tomorrow. My larkspur is blooming now. Sweet William Sweet Allysum Siberian Wallflower Shasta Daisy Forking Larkspur Flanders Poppy (Corn Poppy) Five Spot Echinacea Cynglossum Coreopsis
Are you saying that the seed mix actually referenced the binomials and not the common names??? That strikes me as odd. I've often researched in the opposite direction.
The box of seed mix showed only a list of Latin names, no common names. Btw, I wasn't familiar with the term 'binomial' before you used it here.
I'd kinda prefer that. When I got my first apartment and was really into house plants, I used to write their binomials on popsicle sticks and put them in the pots so I could learn. Going from binomials to common names would be much more accurate that trying to deduce the other way around. ps: Beautiful pics. The beauty and colors in nature are beyond compare...and beyond replication.
I hope I made it clear that the pics I posted on this thread were from the internet and not my own. Here's one of mine. It's Forking Larkspur, as shown above, I think.
I don't matter whose pics they are. Their beauty defies human description. So whose seed pak did you buy?
Dollar General ... two dollars. I haven't seen any other wildflower mix seeds around except these. When the flowers sprouted well I went back and bought two more boxes for next year.
Here's a wildflower that didn't come in the store-bought mix. I rescued it from my yard and with a little attention it took off.
I seem to spend a great deal of my life in a state of embarrassment. This is one of those times. In one of my two vegetable patches I have tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, red and green peppers and ... this. It is accompanied by a large, wonderful, lovely flower I've never seen before. Anyone know what my vegetable is? Is it a mutant? And how do you tag someone? I wanted to get a response from particular people but have forgotten how that is done. And is a pm the same as starting a conversation? Questions, questions, questions.
It's a zucchini or a similar squash. I couldn't place it because I didn't knowingly plant any squash. Evidently the one seed or few seeds were mistakenly mixed in with the veggie seeds I intended to grow. A happy mistake by the seed company. The flower is marvelous.
That seed pod looks just like okra to me. So does the flower (after I looked up okra blossom). Is okra part of the zucchini family?