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This popped up. Any ideas?

Scott11Scott11 Posts: 30
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Hi All,

This looks a little like bind weed flower but more upright and different colour.  Next to the cosmos. 



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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Petunia?
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Agree K67
    SW Scotland
  • Scott11Scott11 Posts: 30
    Perfect. Thanks both. 
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    Yes a petunia. "I'm a lonely little petunia in a an onion plot and all I do is cry all day."  
    If anyone else is old enough to remember that ditty. Oh it was 1940s that was even a bit too early for me. 



    'You must have some bread with it me duck!'

  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    B&Q have or had some really beautifully veined petunias in very vibrant colours  and use them as bedding plants. I think petunias have been improved by careful breeding to make them stonger and weather proof. I am a great fan now.



    'You must have some bread with it me duck!'

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My granny used to sing that to me. I never got around  to asking what a petunia was and I wasn't absolutely sure what an onion patch was either.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Scott11Scott11 Posts: 30
    So I gave in and searched for it :)

    https://youtu.be/TJUoVkGM4jY
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Iamweedy said:
    Yes a petunia. "I'm a lonely little petunia in a an onion plot and all I do is cry all day."  
    If anyone else is old enough to remember that ditty. Oh it was 1940s that was even a bit too early for me.


    Are you sure it's that old?  I remember hearing, I think, Dora Bryan singing it, and I was born in 1952.
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