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Forget~me~nots come in blue, pink, white, and purple...

And when I first started doing stuff in this back yard...
I FOUND A NEW VARIETY......
IT WAS PINK W/ A BLUE STRIPE DOWN THE MIDDLE....
That was one of the reasons' I started surfing the web for info... I wanted to find a person that could help me propagate it....
but by the time I found somebody remotely able to help, the plant had demised I was going to be rich and famous for having a new breed.. :rolleyes: oh well, maybe it'll come back...

Mel,
Heres' the flowers I was talkin' about that
spring up in the spring time...

Do they look like yours?????????
Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)

Okay, how about this one for Patty's Avatar??
Pink Yarrow?????

I'm not so sure, but thought I'd post it anyways?

I think the petals in that link are more fatter and crinkly looking than patty's avatar weezie

Yeah I figured, but I'm grasping at straws...

WOA! I can't believe how many flowers are fitting in here! They're all so close! (Weezie, I'm really leaning toward that spring beauty at this point.)

Since the lighting available for pictures can cause the colors to appear in different shades, it's really a hard call. (I've taken pics of a burgundy Iris, both with & without the flash... one caught the true burgundy color, & the other made it look brown; even when I lightened the pic with a photo editor!) I'm just tickled to see all the purple flowers that people are finding here, & that has made this thread so much fun!

Maybe we should combine all these names & come up with one that would encompass them all... such as, "Creeping foroculari scentuft yarrow beauty"! :rolleyes:

Oh... by the way, remember the pic I posted on up the first page of this thread?
(This one, of the Creeping Phlox:)

At the time, I didn't know that it would keep blooming & make so many flowers! OR that I had more than one of those bushes... which would EXPLODE!

Looky here:

Aren't they GORGEOUS?

I'm just tickled purple!! I'm wondering, since it's called "creeping"... are these going to get bigger & spread out more?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah, they don't just name
just any ole thing "Creeping" if it didn't..

I have some in the back, I am just about ready
to strangle in the back 40 garden..
I'ts' all over..
I have to get back there, and pull some out and put it on the hill/bank...
Just gotta finish 954 projects before I can... :rolleyes:

WOW! Do you mean to say that I can chop these up & line them out so they'll run together & look like a purple blanket every spring?

You have only 954 projects going? How come you get away with such little numbers? My list keeps growing, cuz the weeds are growing faster than I type, & I can't seem to get outside! I think what I need here is a POWER OUTAGE!)

Oh yeah Patty, just prepare an area where
you want a new clump, like scratch up the soil,
loosen it up....
/Then go back to the patch you want to divide..
and pull apart, or take some clippers, or what ever you feel comfortable with..

then place that clump on top of the soil and make sure it has contact with the soil.. maybe fill in some dirt over it, thru the cracks, you'll see where sometimes it gets stretchy limbs, and you can throw dirt right on top...


It will make roots along each and every node where there is a branch like appendage..

That's tooooo funny, I know exactly what you mean..
Truelyyyyy I do....
It's such a nice day out side, just perfect,
GOD couldn't have made a better day than today,
and I'm inside typin'..
But I just can't stay away....

Ok guys, this has been on my mind because I KNOW I've see it! Anyway, today at lunch I was flipping thru a seed catalogue, and there it was!! Could this mystery plant be Silene (catchfly)??? Sure looks similar...

Kinda looks like a different collor of this which is a mystery to me too..

Is that picture of white catchfly? I have pink. I've never seen it white!!

I have no clue Just posted it in a different mystery thread.. its a bush that is all I know.
It is white though!

Catchfly
What do you think?

The link didn't work for me for some reason Netty.

not for me either.....

i think the avatar is a hoya bloom, but i might be wrong, have been before.

Sorry about that link! It works for me but I'll see if I can find another one. I notice that when searching I found it referred to as "Sweet William Catchfly"

SpringFeaver, WOW!

(I love a good mystery!)

I think it does it is a spirea bush

Hey Christina, Mel, Jamie, Lisa, Gardencrazy, Netty, Jiffy & Rita... guess what?
After 6 months, Weezie found it!

Bacopa sutera You're the bestest!

Shoot, I thought I had already guessed bacopa. I was watering in one of the greenhouses awhile back and remember thinking how much the bacopa looked like your lovely unnamed avatar, but I thought I had already ruled that out!

I never would have guessed Bacopa! Good eye Weezie!