No, I'm not one of those folks who wears a metal colander to keep "Them" from reading my brainwaves, and my windows are not decorated with curtains made of tin foil...
I have an Unidentified Flowering Object in my front yard.
When the subject is horticulture, I am as sad and pathetic as they come. A complete idiot. When I buy plants I have to keep those plastic name/planting directions tags with the plant or else I can't for the life of me remember what the heck it is. That's also helps me remember what is a weed and what is a plant, so when I do a slash and burn in my flowerbed I don't kill the stuff I've paid for.
Anyway, I was weeding this morning and came across this guy:
Now, I have Columbine, which looks like this:
And the leaves on the new guy kind of resemble those of the Columbine:
New Guy
Columbine leaves
but,
I don't remember buying this plant,
and there's no plastic tag around to tell me what it is. So...If you have any idea, could you clue me in? Then I'll know if I should pull it or enjoy it.
And thanks, because you know it takes a village to raise an idiot.
8 comments:
Who cares what it is. Enjoy it! It's beautiful. I let weeds grow in my garden if they're pretty. Technically a weed is anything that pops up where it wasn't purposefully planted. So, maybe it is a "weed", but it's pretty. Plus you know it's hardy and grows well in that spot which is more than you can say for most bought flowers. I say, enjoy your freebie and let it live!
cousehow - if you switch the c and h it becomes house cow.
Looks like a double columbine to me. But no matter what it is, I'd leave it there because it's pretty. And I'm not much for weeding, whether it's pretty or not. :-)
Email a pic to the extension service they could tell you I bet
gang, I think Randi hit it correctly- double columbine. Now I just wish I knew how it got there.
And Griffox, my need to know exactly what it is and how it got there stems from my anal-retentiveness...:)
Sorry, that should have said "Thanks gang...
That's what I get for typing in the dark...
No idea what it is, but the leaves look as if they might taste good.
Been over to facebook. What a boring and annoying place. Won't go back. But have reserved my favorite fake name.
Dusty
Probably those flower fairies. Just today I found a daylily growing where I've never had daylilies.
Or maybe a bird was kind enough to eat the seed and "deliver" it. :-)
Ro, who has much more practic le gardening experience than I, came over Wednesday morning and confirmed that it is indeed a double columbine. I still don't know how it got there... I have 4. Them birds musta been crapping overtime, Randi.
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