Maybe they can be either - like rudbekia? My dad had some perennial rudbekia outside the house when I was a kid, but most seed packets are for annual rudbekia. I will never know with mine, given that I don't even know what variety it is!
I think they look the same (ignoring health levels )
I wouldn't have recognised it without LL's ID though... And to be honest I was already confusing it with a plant that has long purple brown dreadlocks, which I don't know what it's called.
Do you know if these are the same small plants with fuzzy heads that come in neon sort of colours like bright pink and yellow?
Well now, I thought that it was one of those things - know exactly what you mean, but I think they are a member of the grass family?? Yours is very red, isn't it! My older leaves are getting greener, which fits in with the google images with green leaves. I thought it was the long deep red dreadlock plant, and tbh, if your variety of it is called 'velvet curtains', then I think that is what you can expect. I reckon that although my one is sticking bolt upright, once the plant gets established they will be big drooping flowers.
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Maybe they can be either - like rudbekia? My dad had some perennial rudbekia outside the house when I was a kid, but most seed packets are for annual rudbekia. I will never know with mine, given that I don't even know what variety it is!
Turns out I was telling fibs- I just dug out the seed packet and it says hardy annual...
It says they're going to be 150cm- that is a lot of growing to do
Mine are called Velvet Curtains. I'll see how they get on. Some are getting chewed in the border so Ive kept spares on one side...
Do yours look like mine? 150cm - hmm - I'd better go check if it is pot bound then.
Oh yes, these roots do look a bit ambitious, don't they.....
That's better. Should be okay in this pot for a couple of weeks while I work out where to put a triffid!
I think they look the same (ignoring health levels
)
I wouldn't have recognised it without LL's ID though... And to be honest I was already confusing it with a plant that has long purple brown dreadlocks, which I don't know what it's called.
Do you know if these are the same small plants with fuzzy heads that come in neon sort of colours like bright pink and yellow?
Well now, I thought that it was one of those things - know exactly what you mean, but I think they are a member of the grass family?? Yours is very red, isn't it! My older leaves are getting greener, which fits in with the google images with green leaves. I thought it was the long deep red dreadlock plant, and tbh, if your variety of it is called 'velvet curtains', then I think that is what you can expect. I reckon that although my one is sticking bolt upright, once the plant gets established they will be big drooping flowers.
Celosia - not a grass after all!