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could an antirrhinum in anyway be construed as a wallflower?

gfarthinggfarthing Posts: 4
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Could an antirrhinum be construed as a wallflower?
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    No ... they’re unrelated. 
    An antirrhinum is an antirrhinum. A wallflower is an erysimum. Different plant families. 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I wonder who won the argument😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sometimes little antirrhinums self-seed and take root and grow in the cracked mortar of old walls ... but that doesn’t make them a wallflower 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There's a buddleia growing out of next door's chimney stack. That's not a wallflower either😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    You could plant a snapdragon in a pot on a wall.
  • gfarthinggfarthing Posts: 4
    Me,I know nothing about the garden only that it’s outside the back door and my wife keeps it pretty, however recently someone we know said an antirrhinum is a wallflower and when my wife heard this disagreed, hence the question,She has now returned to earth from 4000ft.as the person was was adamant they were the same. Happy days. Stay safe out there.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Erysimum and antirrhinum do sound a bit similar. Like erigeron, eryngium, ellisia and artemisia.




  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Echinops and Echium.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited July 2020
    gfarthing said:
    Could an antirrhinum be construed as a wallflower?

    however recently someone we know said an antirrhinum is a wallflower and when my wife heard this disagreed, hence the question,She has now returned to earth from 4000ft.as the person was was adamant they were the same. Happy days. 

    Just to be sure which you have please post a pic.
    Glad your wife returned to earth safely.

    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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