wendy Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 ok they are yellow LOL and I have a ton of them what are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Evening Primrose (Oenothera) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendy Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Thanks that was quick!!! I will have more flowers I will post as they bloom!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 You're welcom! Let's play flower trivia. They reseed themselves like crazy and attract Japanese beetles. I dug up the plant that I had growing in the garden across from Harley-Davidson. It wasn't as pretty as yours and I couldn't stand the beetles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gypsywannabe Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I thought that was loose strife? (sp) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 What was loosestrife? There was some purple liatris in that bed until the groundhog ate it. It looked sort of like purple loosestrife. Or do you mean that the yellow flowers are loosestrife? There is a yellow loosestrife, Lysmachia punctata. I have a purple leafed form of it but the flowers are much smaller than evening primrose. I've never seen the green leafed form in person (plant?). It is hard to tell from the pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendy Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 I have not got any beetles with them....they are so pretty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Ok, 4 or 5 petals. Primrose has 4, yellow loosestrife has 5. Generally speaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 This is my wife's baby.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 It's beautiful! Does it come back every year? I've never had any luck with the blue ones and blue flowers are my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gypsywannabe Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 This is my wife's baby.. That looks like passion flower, the blue. This is what my neighbor says is yellow loosestrife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 The blue is columbine. Gorgeous isn't it? See how the flowers are whorled around the stem in your picture? That is the way the flowers are on my purple leafed loosestrife. It is characteristic of the yellow loosestrifes. I can't see that Wendy's picture, can you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gypsywannabe Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I hate the loosestrife. It grows like a weed and the more you pull it out, the more it sticks its tongue out at ya and raspberries ya. I thought that was passion flower because it was or seemed to be pointing up. All my columbines point down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Let me give you some gooseneck loosestrife! I put plastic over it last year and hit it with Round-up but it is coming back this year. Very attractive plant though. I've got some purple loosestrife like the one that clogs the water ways sitting on my porch in a pot. It is supposedly a domestic one called, I think Modern. Someone gave it to me and I was hoping it was safe. From what I read I had better figure out a way to kill it before I get into trouble with it. I hate to do it! Know what you mean about the columbine. They do mostly look like bells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 This is my wife's baby.. I have a blue one that comes back every year in, of all things, a terra cotta hose pot! The ones safely in the ground die, but this thing, exposed to the worst of temps, has come back for about 8 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 what are those, they are pretty, do they come back every year? They are columbine. You are probably familiar with the wild red and yellow ones that grow around here. They are perennials although some of the more exotic ones will not make it through our harsh winters. I grew some McKenna hybrids from seed once and they lasted about 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Yes it comes back every year. we cover it it with a 5 gallon bucket stuffed with news paper over winter and try to uncover and let it breath as it warms in the spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheobe Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 This plant is also known as a Loosestrife however it's not a Lythrum. Either way - it's on the Noxious Weed list for PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendy Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 ok it is the primrose for sure I gave them a good look....and looked at pictures on yahoo!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 wife bought the cloumbine somewher years ago but could not remember where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 You should be able to grow them from seed but you have to be careful to deadhead any plants you get. If they reseed themselves you wind up with a patch of the common pink garden columbine. When mine started to reseed themselves I thought it was great but didn't give a thought to the fact that they were hybrids. The pink are such good growers that they crowd everthing else out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 This plant is also known as a Loosestrife however it's not a Lythrum. Either way - it's on the Noxious Weed list for PA. Yes, we were mostly talking about Lysimachias as in the yellow loosestrifes and the gooseneck loosestrifes. The purple one that clogs the water ways is a Lythrum. That is what I have on my porch that I must destroy. Do you notice how much of it you see around here anymore? I know of 3 sites and I'm sure there are many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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