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annika1970

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• Aug 20, 2003

• #1

Ok hopefully this works now. Thanks for the help in figuring it out.

 

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Tammie

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• Aug 20, 2003

• #2

I don't know what it is but it sure is beautiful!!

 

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Tammie

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• Aug 20, 2003

• #3

I know you're not in Ontario but maybe this site is a place to start looking?
www.ontariowildflower.com
Hope it helps.

 

walwyn

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• Aug 20, 2003

• #4

How big is it - height, diameter?

Its structure looks like something that growing in my borders, need to check in the books at home though.

 

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Nina

• Aug 20, 2003

• #5

Annika, that looks just like a "cape daisy" one of the osteospermum varieties, originally from South Africa, but grows well in the UK too, and has survived several fairly sharp frosts too. Nina.

 

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annika1970

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• Aug 20, 2003

• #6

I just did a search on cape daisy and I think your right Nina. It is a cape daisy. I loved the flower when I saw it in a photo magazine and wanted to put it in my garden. Now I can.Thanks!
Shannon

 

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Nina

• Aug 20, 2003

• #7

Shannon, it struck me as a variety of "whirlygig" one of the spatula or spoon shaped petals, that one is the mauve one but there are white and buttercup yellow ones too, but beware as some of them are not hardy at all, and need propagating by cuttings and keeping at a temperature over 10 degrees C.
I can say that I am more of a plantswoman than a birder, and I am finding this site a useful way of learning.
Any more help I'll be glad to assist even via personal messaging if you are afraid of embarrassing yourself. Nina.

 

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annika1970

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• Aug 21, 2003

• #8

Thanks again Nina! It great to know that there is a fellow gardener on the forum.
Shannon