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Plant ID
Orchid Lady
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I'm just wondering if anyone can help me ID these two plants, one of them I know is Candytuft because I sowed it this year, the other I have kept as I think it may be a plant that has self seeded from last year, but can't remember what it was!! All I know is it had lovely yellow glowers and was about 1' tall.
I am going to move some of it and thin it out but just wanted to know what the other one was and which is which before I do......no point keeping it if I'm wrong and it's a weed!!
Thanks.
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Hi OL
The thin leaved one looks like candytuft and the larger leaves looks like a marigold (pot? English?) not sure exactly what they're called...
I don't remember planting/ sowing marigolds there, but the tall flowers did look a bit Marigold like but without the smell and obviously taller so could be related.
Ive just had a google and found it....Calendula Officinalis, that's it I'm sure. Thank you Victoria
I will keep them and just move them I think, they will clash totally with the candytuft which is purple and pink!!
I saved some seed off a yellow one last year and they're flowering already
Nice cheerful little plants I think...
They are actually, much nicer than the smelly Marigolds that they are related to
I might leave them where they are and move the Candytuft, can't decide now.
You can use the petals of Calendula in cooking - they look beautiful on a salad, or you can use them to colour rice etc like saffron.
And if you feed the petals to chickens you get really deep golden yolks in their eggs
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't know that about the eggs Dove- I'll have a test