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Patty S
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Lotsa something in my garden is happy. [Solved] Wonder Berry
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Jul 06, 2008, 07:46:54 PM »
I'm not sure where seedlings stop being "seedlings" & become "plants", but I'll put this here, instead of in the "Seedling Identification" thread.
When I decided to plant
all
my available seeds this year, I didn't think I'd have a problem deciphering the weeds from the unidentified plants... & now that I have a full bed of very happy
somethings
, I'm starting to wonder more & more, if they really ARE weeds!
As weeds go, my rule of thumb has always been,
"whatever there is more of, consider it to be a weed."
According to my marker, the plants could very well be something "good", & they're so darned happy, I don't want to pull them out before I'm sure.
There are 2 or 3 of this same plant, coming up in another bed, but nowhere else, which is another reason I'm stumped.
There are Dahlias & Moss Rose in this bed (mostly hidden among the green) & another of my markers is labeled,
"Easter Egg Plant - Dianna"
... but my problem with that, is that I didn't use up that much of the bed when I planted those seeds. (Although they might have washed up & floated around during our heavy rains this spring?) Some of them have these little flowers on them....
Any ideas?
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Triss
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Re: Lotsa something in my garden is happy.
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Jul 06, 2008, 08:03:24 PM »
Well it does look a lot like a Easter Egg or Wonder Egg plant but I thought those flowers were purple. And the weeds that I have that looks similar that that one have pink or yellow flowers so I am stumped.
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Patty S
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Re: Lotsa something in my garden is happy.
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Jul 14, 2008, 06:59:55 PM »
I had Wonder Berries (in that same bed) last year, Triss, & looking back at that thread, I think that's probably what they are. They had white flowers, & Dianna's Wonder Egg plant had purple flowers. Even though I planted some of Dianna's seeds this year, I don't see any purple blossoms anywhere in that bed.
I wasn't impressed at all, with the Wonder Berry...
(it probably got the name after people wondered why they planted the dumb things in the first place)
Here we are, a week later, & some of these darned plants are two feet tall already! Apparently, some berries fell off the plants last year, before I cleaned the bed out.
Even though the plant itself IS a pretty enough plant & other than self-seeding, it doesn't seem to be "invasive", I definitely don't want them again this year...
& particularly not that many of them
, so they're coming out of there!
I'll go carefully, as I "weed" that bed, & might let some of them go, in hopes that some of them are, indeed, Wonder Egg plants. The marker I put in when I planted Dianna's seeds should tell me where they're supposed to be, & I really did want to try growing them this year.
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Re: Lotsa something in my garden is happy. [Solved] Wonder Berry
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Jul 15, 2008, 07:19:56 AM »
They look exactly like very health Chinese Lantern Plants.
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