Mystery Weed or Amazing Flower?

by Green Talk on May 6, 2009

in Gardening


mystery plant in the garden

One  of my biggest problems in my garden is I have no idea what are weeds and what are flowers.  I recall last year planting Sweet William in this particular bed but could swear that the seed package said it was an annual.

In April, this lovely plant appeared.  It does not look like Sweet William.  I have to say this is one of the prettiest weeds I have seen.  Can you see a little sign that is being held up by the plant, which says, “save this plant?”  (Look closer…)

 Any ideas what this plant could be??


Similar Posts:

Related Posts with Thumbnails

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

{ 1 trackback }

Daily News About Flowers : A few links about Flower - Tuesday, 05 May 2009 23:58
May 6, 2009 at 3:21 am

{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Absolute Green May 13, 2009 at 9:59 am

looks like a tiger lily

2 Green Talk May 13, 2009 at 11:29 am

Absolute green, it does, doesn’t it? I think it is a dianthus and it self seeded. Time will tell when the flowers come out. I will take either! Anna

3 David May 15, 2009 at 11:55 am

It looks like a weed to me. I always have the same problem distinguishing between the two. Maybe take a picture of it and take it to your local home and garden store and see if they know.

4 Madlyn May 21, 2009 at 9:38 am

I couldnt help but laugh when I read this, I have the same exact situation with my garden, it is the only thing that came up by its self and I assumed from last years seeds, but part of me believes it is a weed since I have yet to see any sign of flowering…

5 John June 20, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Sweet William is a species of dianthus, so chances are you have a survivor here. Good job :)

6 Healthy Hookup June 21, 2009 at 12:47 am

Well, did you ever hear that…

“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill, except for learning how to grow in a straight line!”.

Maybe, you need to great the first strain of weeds that will grow in a straight line! You will be famous and make millions trust me.

7 Falc64 July 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm

That is definitely sweetwilliam, course you probably know that now since they’ve already bloomed. They are a biennial, but they re-seed and come back every year.

8 caroline crusco October 5, 2009 at 9:55 am

Realy one time I worked in someone`s yard andthey wanted me to pull out the weeds and leave the flowers and when the guy got back i said you didint thinck i could do such a good job and i was fired i pulled the flowers out and left the weeds now i know the differince between a weed and a flower.

9 Natalie Office Chairs November 16, 2009 at 6:51 am

I would also say it looks like it could be from the Lily family, did you maybe find out what it was?? Would be interesting to hear what it was.

Leave a Comment

CommentLuv Enabled

*
To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the security word shown in the picture. Click on the picture to hear an audio file of the word.
Click to hear an audio file of the anti-spam word

Web Analytics