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Is this a weed I've been watering?!

WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
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And assiduously keeping the dog off?🤦‍♀️




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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2022
    Nope … it’s a Gaillardia aka Blanket Flower … my Gardening Granny loved them … they’re so cheerful 😄 

    and she grew up in Luton!!! … her father in law was the mayor six times between the wars … by the time I was born she was living and gardening in Heath & Reach. 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think I edited that while you were reading it 😆 

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





  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Thank you, @Dovefromabove! Never seen one and haven't the faintest idea where it has come from, but it is rather eye-catching and can stay. :)

    (Perhaps it's seed descended from your granny's garden here!)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    😃 does that make us related … sort of 😵‍💫🤯 🤪 

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





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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Wish my weeds looked like that!
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    WhereAreMySecateurs said:

    Yay!   My Great Aunts lived on New Bedford Road in Luton.

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What would you have done if it had been identified as a weed?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Easy to grow from seed. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    B3 said:
    What would you have done if it had been identified as a weed?
    I would have sighed resignedly and adjusted the weed to proper plant ratio of the garden from 50:50 to 51:49, lol 

    Good to know, @Lyn! These might be a good alternative to the tagetes that the slugs all munched.🤔
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