Thursday 6 December 2012

The Garden Whip Around - Flowers and a Mystery

We are establishing a new garden bed...
The day lilies our neighbour gave us are flowering...
The calendular I grew from seed is flowering...
Stattice putting on a good show in a range of blues...
 The pomegranate is putting on a good show, maybe this year I will get fruit...
 These are pomegranate flowers, aren't they lovely.  I think I would grow one even if it did not produce fruit.
Of the nastutuims I planted this one turned our red, I didn't know they came in red so this was a nice surprise.
This is our datura bush and it has been flowering for the last 2 months.  But this week something strange and mysterious happened...
The flowers came out creamy/limey/white.  Until now it has only ever had peach coloured flowers.  And since this was given to us by our old neighbour as a cutting from her tree we know that the parent plant also had peach coloured flowers.
Any ideas on why this might happen?

NB:  As of 09/12 the have now turned peach.  I guess we have not been very observant in the past.  It could also be that we have a mass of flowers all opened at once.  I prefer the latter.

5 comments:

  1. no ideas on the datura, but the pomegranate flowers are lovely!

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  2. your pomegrante is about the same size as mine and about the same amount of flowers they need a good amount of water to fruit

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  3. The pomegrante flowers are lovely..I didn't even know they had one..you learn something new every day!

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  4. Hi. My Datura (Brugmansia spp.) is also peach but throws out pale cream/lime coloured flowers that turn peach after a day or two. Mine flowers much of the year and has done for a few years now. I'm taking green wood cuttings at the moment as the old tree is getting a bit ratty. They prune really well and are nearly impossible to kill once they get going.

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    1. Thanks ED I will wait a few days. We have had our for more than 12 months and I have never seen the creamy white stage only ever the peach. Funny how I never noticed before but I am sure you are right.

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