Alphabetical "What plant am I"...Game.

A friend told me about this game, seems a liitle bit different... It is a game where you give a set of clues, to guess the plants identity...
You have to say what family it comes from,ie. Hardy Perennial, Anual, Tree, Bulb, Exotic etc. Where usually grown & a breif description of what it looks like.
Keeping in alphabetical order....
The person to guess correctly gives the clues to the next plant & so on....


I will kick it off then. A nice easy one.. A

I am a Hardy Herbaceous Perennial.
Free flowering with flat plate like 4-6" flower heads. Good for cutting & as a dried flower. I flower from mid to late summer & I am about 2ft tall when fully grown.
I come in many colours, but you mainly see me in yellow or red......



[ 01. April 2007, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: Marley Farley ]

 

Well, nobody playing yet then..??? :rolleyes: :D

How about another clue then...


I have silvery blue, serrated foliage which is feathery in appearance..... :D

 

:D Oh well, shame MF. It is an easy plant & because it is Alphabetical & we are only on A... Ho Hum....
This game goes so well on her Canadian forum too.... :rolleyes: I thought it would be another game to play & maybe remember the plants names as well.... :D

 

Well done Pal. But no.. :( sorry
My flower heads are flat or slightly domed not spikes....

I will give you the clues again....
I am a Hardy Herbaceous Perennial.
Free flowering with flat plate like 4-6" flower heads. Good for cutting & as a dried flower. I flower from mid to late summer & I am about 2ft tall when fully grown.
I come in many colours, but you mainly see me in yellow or red......
I have silvery blue, serrated foliage which is feathery in appearance....

In my wild form I can grow to 5ft tall & I am usually yellow or white in colour then...

Sorry I confused the heights earlier have put that right now...

[ 01. April 2007, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: Marley Farley ]

 

:rolleyes: :D OK.. As I got a clue wrong on the first one.. So sorry all.. Here is the answer..
Achillea.. In the garden & Yarrow in the wild....


Here is another A & I have double checked my clues this time....!

I am from a bulb type root.
I am Hardy.
You can eat my relatives....
My family includes a wide range of plants from small bulbs with tiny, beautiful flowers for rock gardens to the drumsticks with stout vertical stems topped by a ball of colour.
We give extra impact to the early summer border and can be dried for winter decoration. We come in a wonderful range of colours including purple, buttercup yellow, pinks, white and shades of cornflower blue. We are extremely easy to grow, invariably needing a place in full sun right at the front of a border.

So who are we???

 

Yep, correct Allium..! Your turn Elaine, find one for b now.... :D

 

Hmmm, got my thinking cap on.. I can think of sevearal B ones but they are not pink petals.. off for a think.. :D

 

:confused: Bee Balm..?? A member of the Monarda family...