Re: Serendipidy
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  • Subject: Re: Serendipidy
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:31:58 -0500
Are you talking about Oxalis adenophylla? Common name is Sauer Klee, Sauerklee 
Go to:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2004/080604/log.html
it's the second pic up from the Bottom of the page.
I grew those years ago, but I don't recall what happened to them cuz they're no longer here. Then last year our MG Shakespeare Garden asked me to get them some Pink Buttercups. I wasn't sure what they meant as I was thinking Ranunculus and couldn't come up with a pink one that would be hardy. Then I found some references to O adenophylla being called Pink Buttercup and it turned out that's what they wanted. Why would an Oxalis be called a buttercup?
Thinking more about it, maybe yours isn't O adenophylla. It has these cute accordian-like leaves. There are other pink Oxalis out there wiith the typical shamrock-like leaves. They are all such pretty gems! 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 5:09 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Serendipidy



Isn't that nice? That's a plant my mom used to have, I remember the pink
blooms. Seems to me they looked nice even when not in flower with their
clover-like leaves. I'm trying to remember if they had foliage all
summer but it was something that really didn't catch my eye until they
flowered - there was a strip between the house and the backyard walkway,
very narrow but long, and once a year the whole border would erupt into
a pink extravaganza.

Cyndi


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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:57 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] Serendipidy

Today I found a blossom on a plant I have seen for years but never
saw bloom before.  Ever since we have lived here - 40 years - there
has been an Oxalis plant growing right up next to the foundation in
front of the house, inside the drip line from the eaves.  It was
obviously
not the common weed - wood sorrell, or yellow oxalis - since its leaves
were definitely larger.  Since it was not invasive, I have never pulled
it
out - I am really pretty tolerant of any plant that doesn't actively
impinge
on something I am trying to develop.  Anyway, today it has a bunch
of pretty pink blossoms. It is surronded by the common yellow weed,
which I have now pulled out, but seems to have enlarged its stand
considerably from past years.  As I said, I have never seen it bloom
before. I have done a bit of Google research on Oxalis, but can't seem
to pin it down exactly.  Anyway, it is one of the serendipitous results
I often get from not overweeding.
Auralie

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