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    Flower id, please?

    Walking home from visiting friends today, we chanced upon a temporary flower market My youngest son was very taken with this one but I have no idea what it is



    Any ideas?
    I was feeling part of the scenery
    I walked right out of the machinery
    My heart going boom boom boom
    "Hey" he said "Grab your things
    I've come to take you home."
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    Osteospermum.
    here's another one: Google Image Result for http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/18103200_4481ef0a23.jpg
    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 29-06-2008, 08:06 PM.
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      I love this flower. I saw it at some stately home's gardens and spent hours looking through a plant id book trying to find it. Eventually got the OH to agree to have one only last week!

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      • #4
        Many thanks! I thought it was daisy-ish but I'd never seen those spoon shaped petals before.
        I was feeling part of the scenery
        I walked right out of the machinery
        My heart going boom boom boom
        "Hey" he said "Grab your things
        I've come to take you home."

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
          Osteospermum.
          here's another one: Google Image Result for http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/18103200_4481ef0a23.jpg
          Well done TS! For once I actually new what this flower was because I've admired them also!
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            oooooooooo gotta get me some of those, how pretty, especially the purple one

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            • #7
              just got some white ones on ebay, £2.06 for 15 seeds buy it now with free shipping ...... excited now

              AFRICAN DAISY SEEDS 15 OSTEOSPERMUM WHITE SERENITY RARE - eBay (item 230264547724 end time Jul-02-08 12:32:13 PDT)

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              • #8
                They used to be considered as half hardy but they can usually manage a modern globally warmed winter now!
                Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                • #9
                  Flower

                  That particular one is Osteospermum whirligig.

                  The older it gets the more likely the petals will revert back to standard ones so cuttings every few years is advised.
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                  • #10
                    y'see - that's why this forum is so fab...thanks Seasprout.

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                    • #11
                      *jumps up and down* my seeds arrived today, all i gotta do now is figure out how to make sure they grow

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