What’s your favourite flower?
Looking for suggestions for ones to add to my garden😊
22-25, F
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Two, in my garden, are wild - well one is sort of domesticated, in mine.
Whether you would want them, or could have them, in your garden, I cannot say - besides, it may depend where you live.
The fully wild one that simply wandered in and likes it here is Ivy-leaved Toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis), a Southern European native that readily adopts other temperate regions.
Its thin, fibrous stems grow rather like ivy, in tangles particularly suited to life on old brick and stone walls rich in crevices caused by the mortar having weathered out (hence the species name).
Its leaves resemble those of ivy in shape though are a lot smaller (about 10-12mm across).
It bears a profusion of tiny (about 10mm across) mauve and white flowers with distinctive yellow centres, very attractive to bees and other pollinating insects.
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The "domesticated" one is a Dog-rose (wild rose; Rosa canina); native of Europe, Asia and NW Africa; introduced to the USA in WW2.
My specimen was rescued from a narrow-gauge railway in an industrial museum. It had grown up where not wanted, in the mechanism of a point, as a sucker from a lineside bush that was welcome. It is now part of my boundary, helping security by its vicious thorns.
An important difference from many of the most heavily hybridised roses is that the small, white blossoms are fully open to insects.
Whether you would want them, or could have them, in your garden, I cannot say - besides, it may depend where you live.
The fully wild one that simply wandered in and likes it here is Ivy-leaved Toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis), a Southern European native that readily adopts other temperate regions.
Its thin, fibrous stems grow rather like ivy, in tangles particularly suited to life on old brick and stone walls rich in crevices caused by the mortar having weathered out (hence the species name).
Its leaves resemble those of ivy in shape though are a lot smaller (about 10-12mm across).
It bears a profusion of tiny (about 10mm across) mauve and white flowers with distinctive yellow centres, very attractive to bees and other pollinating insects.
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The "domesticated" one is a Dog-rose (wild rose; Rosa canina); native of Europe, Asia and NW Africa; introduced to the USA in WW2.
My specimen was rescued from a narrow-gauge railway in an industrial museum. It had grown up where not wanted, in the mechanism of a point, as a sucker from a lineside bush that was welcome. It is now part of my boundary, helping security by its vicious thorns.
An important difference from many of the most heavily hybridised roses is that the small, white blossoms are fully open to insects.