Flower of the Day for a year - a Challenge!

[farendwoman]

A tiny little gomphrena “Little Grapes”.
Small round flowers about the size of a sweet pea seed, but lots of them on one stem.
Looks lovely when cut and mixed in with other things.

[veggiechicken]

Daisies..................

[farendwoman]

Seed raised Calamintha Marvellete .
One blue, one white - only just starting to do something, so haven’t really been worth the space in my flower patch.
Lovely minty fragrance for both leaves and flowers.
Not sure if I can add flowers to salads - some websites say “Yes”, but no definitive answer!

[rary]

A tiny little gomphrena “Little Grapes”.
Small round flowers about the size of a sweet pea seed, but lots of them on one stem.
Looks lovely when cut and mixed in with other things.
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that's a lovely little flower farend is it a hardy or half-hardy annual

[rary]

my flower of the day is again a surprise as its in a basket that should have been removed as it is covered in dead vegetation and again its a petunia I have now decided to cover it with fleece and leave it over the winter to see if it survives

[farendwoman]

that's a lovely little flower farend is it a hardy or half-hardy annual

Hi Rary
I think it could be a tender perennial, but not sure.
I managed to keep one of them going last winter on an indoor windowsill.
I treated it in a similar fashion to pelargoniums.
Dug it up, put it in a 6” pot and hacked it right back to about eight inches tall. (They grow to about two and a half ft in the garden).
In the spring, the dead looking twigs started to sprout and I took a few cuttings. Success rate with these was only about one in four. The other couple of plants that I left in the garden succumbed to frost and disappeared.
I shall be doing exactly the same thing again this year, and have just dug it up for overwintering.
It’s a bu**er to keep going - WHY do we always spend so much time on plants that are so much trouble!!!

[roitelet]

Too soggy to do much flower hunting today so it will have to be Pansies, one for today and one for yesterday.

[farendwoman]

A pale pink snapdragon today

[rary]

Hi Rary
I think it could be a tender perennial, but not sure.
I managed to keep one of them going last winter on an indoor windowsill.
I treated it in a similar fashion to pelargoniums.
Dug it up, put it in a 6” pot and hacked it right back to about eight inches tall. (They grow to about two and a half ft in the garden).
In the spring, the dead looking twigs started to sprout and I took a few cuttings. Success rate with these was only about one in four. The other couple of plants that I left in the garden succumbed to frost and disappeared.
I shall be doing exactly the same thing again this year, and have just dug it up for overwintering.
It’s a bu**er to keep going - WHY do we always spend so much time on plants that are so much trouble!!!

thanks farend. I will try and get some seeds as OH would like those flowers for her flower arranging, which would/might then give me brownie points

[veggiechicken]

Petunias with a hint of lobelia.

[rary]

today my flower is from a pak choi which has gone to seed

[farendwoman]

Hi Rary
Sorry - can’t offer you any seed. The gomphrena Little Grapes has not produced any viable seed since I’ve had it - hence my faffing around with cuttings and overwintering. The frost always gets it before the flowers form seed. Wish I could harvest some seed so that I could have lots more of it in the garden.
In the US apparently it self seeds and people yank them out- grrrrr!

[roitelet]

Today a very tatty Phlox, but marks for trying!

[veggiechicken]

Some sort of geranium/cranesbill Its has rounded, soft furry leaves and I found it lurking under the fig hedge.

[roitelet]

Could be Renardii.