Re: was airhead now Mystery plant

This spring I planted a packet of red hot sally salvia seeds. Many of them
sprouted, but in the same bed sprouted a plant in several places that has
foilage that looks like a painted daisy. I did plant painted daisy seeds,
but the plantings were several weeks apart and in entirely separate
locations. Since the mystery plant does not take up too much space, I plan
on letting it grow and see what happens. It may be a weed, but it has
lovely foilage.

At 01:24 AM 6/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I had a mystery plant.  It started growing in the front of my border and I
>liked the color of the foliage so I let it go.  I assumed it was a weed,
>but I figured I would wait and find out.  Well it turned out to be papaver
>somniferum.  I love it.  I don't love it in the front of my flower border,
>but we can't always pick these things.  Is it common to have these things
>show up from out of nowhere?  I haven't seen any others in the area.
>
>Christa Ramey
>Zone 7
>Maggie Valley, NC
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jaime <jknoble@warwick.net>
>To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
>Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 1:11 AM
>Subject: Re: airhead
>
>
>Amy Newkirk wrote:
>
>> I have seedlings in my garden that I still don't know what they are.
>
>That probably won't end, either.  I had 4 plants appear
>magically in my perennial garden this spring.  I have absolutely
>no idea where they came from (no one else in the neighborhood is
>growing them). I know what one is.  I have tentatively
>identified 2 others.  I am guessing on the fourth.  I thought it
>was a really interesting looking thistle, so I let it go as I do
>with many weeds.  It was 5' tall before it dawned on me that it
>is an Acanthus and is about to run right over a fairly large
>corner of the garden.
>
>> Oh well, I figure there are no failures in gardening, only experiments.
>> Really, I think that's what makes it fun.
>
>Absolutely!
>
>Jaime, who is waiting patiently to see the true leaves appear so
>she can identify what is in that one flat.  :)
>jknoble@warwick.net
>NW NJ, zone 6/5
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