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Post by NellyDee on Sept 27, 2015 12:37:01 GMT
The petals are a pale yellow, not white as the photo shows. I scattered a packet of wild seed at the top of a steep slope at the start of spring (hoping the seeds would drift down the slope), so do not know why this very delicate and slender plant has taken so long to appear. Can you tell me what it is please? It is among lupins so difficult to see the very thin stems and leaves.
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 27, 2015 12:47:22 GMT
Possibly a rather spindly Coreopsis verticillata?
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Post by NellyDee on Sept 27, 2015 13:19:07 GMT
Just looked it up. Ticks all the boxes re growing conditions, hope it can keep going, being mid lupins. Is it a wild flower?
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Post by faith on Sept 27, 2015 14:26:57 GMT
The box it doesn't tick is the likelihood of it establishing itself in Scotland (it's a garden flower from the USA, very rarely naturalised). Also, your pic seems to show a white flower, whereas the Coreopsis is yellow. However, I can't supply an alternative, so that's not much help I'm afraid. It will indeed be interesting to see if it persists – although flowers from wild seed mixes rarely do, otherwise how would they make their money?
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 27, 2015 18:49:52 GMT
The box it doesn't tick is the likelihood of it establishing itself in Scotland (it's a garden flower from the USA, very rarely naturalised). Also, your pic seems to show a white flower, whereas the Coreopsis is yellow. However, I can't supply an alternative, so that's not much help I'm afraid. It will indeed be interesting to see if it persists – although flowers from wild seed mixes rarely do, otherwise how would they make their money? Faith if you re-read Nelly's original post she makes the point that though the flower looks white in the photo, in reality it is/was pale yellow.  |
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Post by John Pappus on Sept 27, 2015 21:17:13 GMT
A tip for this colour ambiguity may be to include a piece (and it can be no bigger that a stamp on a stick) of white card in the picture as this may later be used to establish a white-balance for the picture in any simple editing-program - it usually works pretty well.
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Post by faith on Sept 28, 2015 8:07:57 GMT
Oops, sorry Nelly :-) And thanks for the tip John – I can always do with help for photography.
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