On holiday last week in the lake district I took these photos from the car
http://peter4007.fotopic.net/c589417.html
Can anyone advise what is the flower?

Thanks
Peter

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:58:59 +0100, Peter wrote:

On holiday last week in the lake district I took these photos from the car
http://peter4007.fotopic.net/c589417.html
Can anyone advise what is the flower?

Looks like the Poached Egg plant, aka Limanthes.

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Cheers, Serena
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cartoon)

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On holiday last week in the lake district I took these photos from the car
http://peter4007.fotopic.net/c589417.html
Can anyone advise what is the flower?

Limnanthes douglasii or poached-egg flower. The seed is commonly
stocked in garden centres, very easy to grow, just scatter it thinly
where you want the plants; a nice one for children to grow. It's a hardy
annual but self seeds prolifically for future years.Bees like it.

Janet

The garden centre thought they were too small to be Poached egg plants - Do
they flower profusely as in the photo? (excuse my ignorance)


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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:58:59 +0100, Peter wrote:

On holiday last week in the lake district I took these photos from the
car
http://peter4007.fotopic.net/c589417.html
Can anyone advise what is the flower?

Looks like the Poached Egg plant, aka Limanthes.

--
Cheers, Serena
Sometimes I sits and thinks ... and sometimes I just sits. (Punch
cartoon)

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from "Peter" contains these words:

The garden centre thought they were too small to be Poached egg plants -

They obviously hadn't a clue what poached egg plant is or looks like.
Maybe they thought they would be the size of poached eggs?

Do
they flower profusely as in the photo? (excuse my ignorance)

Yes.

You can check this out for yourself in google. Click on "images",
type in the name, press search..

Janet.

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The garden centre thought they were too small to be Poached egg plants - Do
they flower profusely as in the photo? (excuse my ignorance)

Looks like a poached egg plant to me. Perhaps they're bantams' eggs?

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Thanks for you help


"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Peter" contains these words:

The garden centre thought they were too small to be Poached egg plants -

They obviously hadn't a clue what poached egg plant is or looks like.
Maybe they thought they would be the size of poached eggs?

Do
they flower profusely as in the photo? (excuse my ignorance)

Yes.

You can check this out for yourself in google. Click on "images",
type in the name, press search..

Janet.

Thanks for your help

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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The message
from "Peter" contains these words:

The garden centre thought they were too small to be Poached egg plants -
Do
they flower profusely as in the photo? (excuse my ignorance)

Looks like a poached egg plant to me. Perhaps they're bantams' eggs?

--
Rusty
Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/