Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: wellingtons on June 04, 2009, 12:23
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... when it's not in flower??
I have a mystery plant, which I think may be bergamot as I can't think what the devil else I would have planted there. In all the books I have it, it just shows me the flower and not the plant.
Not good when I've got the plant and no flipping flowers!!
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There are some drawings and photographs on wikipedia if you type it in wellingtons - sorry still don't know how to do the link - not brill, but hope they help
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This:
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Sorry, that's a bit small, here's a link:
http://morningnoonandnight.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/bergamotorange.jpg
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This one is garden bergamot (Monarda)
http://www.hairypotplants.co.uk/monarda-cambridge-scarlet-141-p.asp (http://www.hairypotplants.co.uk/monarda-cambridge-scarlet-141-p.asp)
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Ooo you lot are better than me at finding pictures.
Particuarly that one MumofStig ... that is looking pretty much on the button!
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I won't bother in future... :tongue2:
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I won't bother in future... :tongue2:
:D
You can't win em all :)
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lol ... I'm just picking the one my plant looks most like in a pathetic attempt to cling to the vain hope that I do know what I'm growing!
:D
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Ahem. I didn't realise there was more than one Bergamot, as it happens. :lol:
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Ahem. I didn't realise there was more than one Bergamot, as it happens. :lol:
Me neither - I only know the one that flavours my Earl Grey tea, and as I'd looked it up on wiki a few weeks ago, knew there were picis there... :blush:
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Mmmm... Earl Grey.
Try Lady Grey, it's lovely.
Sorry to go off-topic!
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Mmmm... Earl Grey.
Try Lady Grey, it's lovely.
Sorry to go off-topic!
back on topic - is that a mild bergamot flavour then?
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Lady grey....erm......isn't that the one that's lemon as well as bergamot?
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Yup! Lemon and Orange. And Bergamot (topic!)
See my rather sad Tea thread in the Eating and Drinking section. :)
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Taking this one step further ... are the leaves supposed to smell like bergamot??
Because they don't ... although the seeds I planted did ... I just can't be sure that this plant came from the bergamot seeds I planted!!
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The leaves should smell.....minty or like oregano when rubbed between the fingers :)
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I'll go give them a sniff later and report back ... :unsure: