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Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Lardman on June 16, 2015, 10:27

Title: Plant ID please..
Post by: Lardman on June 16, 2015, 10:27
My old man put this in under some conifers many moons ago and it's cover the ground really well. Mother Lard asked me what it was yesterday but I have absolutely no clue but I know you lot will know.

Flowers are a pinker than the look there it's very low growing.
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: Aunt Sally on June 16, 2015, 10:36
Could be an Eringeron glaucus.

(http://www.laspilitas.com/images/grid24_24/11168/images/plants/erigeron/erigeron-glaucus-x-wayne-roderick-daisy.jpg)
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: mumofstig on June 16, 2015, 10:50
Agree it's an Erigeron, they come in pinks mauves and blues, as well as white  :)
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: Lardman on June 16, 2015, 11:02
It does seem a pretty good match, although these are at most 4" high rather than 10-12"  :unsure:

Mother Lard thought the name sounded like "chrysanthemum" but start with an "M" 
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: JayG on June 16, 2015, 11:09
Wonder if she was thinking 'mesembryanthemum' (easy for me to say!  :lol:)
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: Lardman on June 16, 2015, 11:17
She probably was  :lol:  and having a google its pretty close but these aren't annuals.

I do wonder if the old man "borrowed" a cutting from someone's garden and mis-identified it  :wub:
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: sunshineband on June 16, 2015, 17:38
She probably was  :lol:  and having a google its pretty close but these aren't annuals.

I do wonder if the old man "borrowed" a cutting from someone's garden and mis-identified it  :wub:

He might have, or been given the wrong name of course. I have seen Erigeron that is short growing along garden walls sometimes, so it may not always get to a foot high.
Title: Re: Plant ID please..
Post by: Aunt Sally on June 16, 2015, 18:50
If it's under trees it won't be getting as much water and nutrients and would be smaller.