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Hi, it's Weez again trying to find out what the heck I'm growing in my garden. This is a picture of something I started indoors, then lost the label for by the time it was ready to set out. It was such a healthy compact little thing, I gave it a spot in my beds, just chancing it was perennial. It came up the following spring,and it looks like a wild silene of some sort, but it is muc taller than the ones I see around here from time to time. It may have been from one of my wildflower seed mixtures. It stands about 20 inches tall, as I recall. Any suggestions?..WZ
Rose Campion in the USA is Lychnis coronaria which we sometimes call dusty miller in the UK, which is Cineraria in the USA LOL
I have listed 12 common names of Silene doica in a wild flower book so its harly surprising that there are more names out there, its also listed as Melandrium rubrum.
Thanks, everybody: I've spent this AM in my nightgown in front of the computer checking data bases, and like the last holdout on a jury, I'm inclined to think that this is Red Campion...if only to be able to get dressed now! I start jury duty in March, so I hope I'm not so easy persuaded then! I've checked on the web, I've checked my perennial books, I've checked my wildflower books, and finally sorted through all my year 2000 empty seed packets to find the wildflower mix I suspect it came from...yes, I do save my old seed packets (clear back from 1999), and yes, I guess I'm a compulsive! The wildflower mix I sowed that year listed "catchfly" so I'm pretty safe in calling it that. I think I am hesitant to call it red campion because the photos I've seen are just too darned pretty. My photo was taken in sun, so it looks a lighter green, and I don't see any rosey hues around the stems and balloon base of my flowers. I'm assuming it is perennial, since it came up again last spring, but it could also be a biennial for all I know. Maybe I can get a better picture this summer. As for discussion on lychnis, I'll go to the thread on Rose Campion that Azalea started...thanks again, WZ
