I have these growing all over the garden, but don't know their name. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Honesty, Lunaria annua. The flowers are followed by flat coin-like seed pods which, when they lose their two outer skins, remain as a fine silver membrane, and it's these that they're mainly grown for.

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On 04/09/2012 05:58 PM, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-04-09 10:44:21 +0100, Ocelot
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I have these growing all over the garden, but don't know their name.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.


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Looks like honesty, or Lunaria annua. There's a white form, too. It's
terribly pretty and seeds itself easily. It forms those pretty seed
heads that look like transparent coins with little seeds inside. We
have it all over the place and just barely keep it under control because
we enjoy it so much. It's biennial.

Yes, the trick is that it stays small the first year and is easy to
remove by accident. When it's happy in the second year it gets quite
large, 2 or 3 ft in all, and is decorative even throughout the winter
(in it's own way!) In full bloom everywhere just now, I had my kids
distribute seed around the hedge bases in surrounding fields, really
lovely stuff.

In France it's called "Pope's Coins": Honesty indeed!

The white form is less vigorous than the purple, but it's easy to tell
which is which from the seed.

On Apr 9, 5:38*pm, Emery Davis wrote:
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I have these growing all over the garden, but don't know their name.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

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Looks like honesty, or Lunaria annua. There's a white form, too. *It's
terribly pretty and seeds itself easily. It forms those pretty seed
heads that look like transparent coins with little seeds inside. *We
have it all over the place and just barely keep it under control because
we enjoy it so much. It's biennial.

Yes, the trick is that it stays small the first year and is easy to
remove by accident. *When it's happy in the second year it gets quite
large, 2 or 3 ft in all, and is decorative even throughout the winter
(in it's own way!) *In full bloom everywhere just now, I had my kids
distribute seed around the hedge bases in surrounding fields, really
lovely stuff.

In France it's called "Pope's Coins": Honesty indeed!

The white form is less vigorous than the purple, but it's easy to tell
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There is also a form with variegated leaves, which I once had but lost
David @ the wet end of Swansea Bay

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I have these growing all over the garden, but don't know their name.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Lucky you it is indeed Honesty, we all agree on that. It is a great little
plant.

kate

Thanks, Kay, that's the one. The seed pods are definitely like that every year.