One lone chili pepper--but it is perfect ! I think I will try to find room to plant more vegetables next fall.
This plant came up in one of my planters. I don't have a clue as to what it is. I had other flowers growing in the pot when this started to take over. I liked it and pulled out the rest to give it room to grow. Seems like I always have a strange plant come up somewhere in my garden. Any idea what it is?
This plant came up in one of my planters. I don't have a clue as to what it is. I had other flowers growing in the pot when this started to take over. I liked it and pulled out the rest to give it room to grow. Seems like I always have a strange plant come up somewhere in my garden. Any idea what it is?
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WOW...how lucky for you to just start sprouting these very beautiful plants !!! I have no idea what it is, but tt is amazing!!!
The more I look at this plant, the more it looks like a four-o-clock... but I can't be sure... do the blooms open in the afternoon?
Whatever it is, it's really quite nice...
OK, looked it up and that yellow flower is definitely a Four-o-clock, aka marvel of peru, or Mirabilis jalapa. If you plant it in the ground, it will form a large, tuberous root, and, in your climate, will become a perrenial, although it will need a little extra water. Watch out though, each of those blooms will create a black seed... and they sprout quickly...
Claude- Yes, the blooms open up in the afternoon.I knew you would figure it out!! Thanks! I really like it and it likes living here. Maybe I should just keep it in the container.
It's probably fine for now... but it will get too big for that pot eventually,about 2 or 3 feet tall and wide, and there's that large tuberous root to think of. They're old-fashioned plants, one of the varieties recomended for Victorian gardens.
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