RE: Mystery plant (calling all super sleuths)
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- Subject: RE: Mystery plant (calling all super sleuths)
- From: D*
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:34:15 -0500
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Your descriptions keep sounding like Campanula glomerata.
http://www.sierra.com/sierrahome/gardening/encyc/display/0,1073,275,00.html
No, my shasta daisies aren't blooming. :(
Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsett@blueriver.net
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
> So help me Hannah, I feel like I'm turning into a
> veritable Sherlock Holmes. I don't know what the
> neighbors thing when they see me out there prowling
> around my garden with a magnifying glass, a ruler and
> a dictionary!!! I used to just look at my flowers and
> admire how pretty they are..now I am examining them
> like a medical examiner going over a corpse inch by
> inch.
> No, they don't have spots.
> No they don't have stripes. BUT, here comes a
> smashing clue that will surely send you racing to your
> garden to check things out.
> As I mentioned earlier, the leaves are elongated heart
> shaped. At the top of the leaf where the two lobes
> meet to create the heart shape the bud first
> appears..as though it is coming out of the leaf
> itself. Then after a few days the slender stem
> comes..right out of the V creating the heart..and
> eventually the "bud" turnes into a cluster of little
> bells that fact upward. They are not a pinkish
> purple. They are a vibrant purple. The leaves are a
> dark green..not a pea green or a grayish green.
> All up and down the stalk, wherever ther is a leaf,
> one of these slender stems comes out of the v of the
> leaf with the cluster of flowers on the end.
> Do you think I should submit this to Mystery Magazine?
> Jeanne
>
> ===
> Jeanne
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