RE: Serendipidy
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  • Subject: RE: Serendipidy
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:44:29 -0700
I expect the ones my mother had were Oxalis articulata. Pretty pictures
on that site you sent, Kitty, I'm in love with those lilies. Maybe in my
next life I'll garden where there's water. 

Cyndi  


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Kitty
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 4:32 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Serendipidy

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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> 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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