The picture shows just a few of my gardening folders. For the most part, I know the name and variety of everything I grow. Sometimes, one will escape me.
I don't know how I came by this flower. I have searched the Internet repeatedly and cannot find a picture or name. It is a garden perennial and I'm sure it is fairly common. What is the name of this flower?
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It is a (Lychnia or Silene coronaria) - Rose campion. This flower is a member of the carnation family and is a good addition to a self sowing garden. Thanks for asking; I see them frequently and also could not remember what they were called.
Thanks, Babs,
I really don't like it when someone asks me the name of one of my flowers and I have to say, 'I don't know'. Now, I can give the flower picture a proper title.
I wonder if we used different search engines and that made a difference. Every time I enter 'Lychnia', Google corrects it to 'Lychnis' and I get pronunciations that sound like 'likeness'.
This is getting interesting. Check this out.
Lychnis flos-cuculis Plant - White Robin
Hello !
The official name of the plant is lychnis coronaria, it is very beautiful when you can put next to each other the three different type with white flowers, pink flowers and red flowers.
This is a very interesting plant that I have seen in books but never in a store. I also checked out the name you mentioned and found even more interesting blooms..
I checked 2 of my favorite plant sites and came up with some information that I will need when I find one of this species.
Just in case someone else is interested:
www.gardeningknowhow.com/
www.thegardenhelper.com/
Just so you'll know. I didn't do anything to enhance the color in that picture. The flowers actually are that vivid.
If you want this plant, it might be best to order seed from J L Hudson. 100 seed-$2.50. He has the lowest shipping rates I've ever seen.
You may not be able to find this plant in Florida. It came from Africa and Europe and has been naturalized in most of the lower 48.
Thanks for the info - I will order the seeds and see what happens. maybe I'll start a trend - if they do well in Florida.
It is Lychnis Coronaria (otherwise known as Catchfly, Dusty miller,
or Rose campion) It is a hardy perennial which gets scruffy as the years goes by. It produces an abundance of little black seeds which germinate readily so save some and start some new plants every spring.
It is for sure a pink campion.
This is Coronaria or rose campion
your plant picture 100_2662.JPGi come from northeast europa when i was a child(born 1929)we found this in the grainfields and we kids called them uhrblumen (cklockflowers?)because we couldthe flower turn around sorry my english is not good so i cant explaine it better
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