Is this a weed or what guys and dolls.!

Hello everyone.

Just registered with the hope Someone can recognise this plant. I've searched the net, and been to three garden centre's with no luck. First picture is the leaf (on a4 paper to show scale) AS the second picture illustrates, she's just starting to flower, and the flower is the same size as the leaves. I have three of these in our front garden. standing about a meter tall, with slightly hairy stems (1cm wide)

Thank you.

 

Welcome Daddiedolittle.
Where abouts do you live?

Hmm! Very unusual.
I wonder if it is Megacarpaea polyandra.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Megacarpaea_polyandra_143-8734.jpg

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200009621

3 very good pics on this link.....

http://www.botmuc.de/alpen/megacarpaea.html

The seed pods are rather distinctive.

 

Sorry, this doll can't help.

 

Thanks for the message anyway Alice...Yes this is a tricky one. I've spent hours upon hours looking at numerous images, yet nothing even looks close.

Hello Silver surfer, and thank you for your most welcome, welcome. Okay, location is Oswestry, by Wrexham..So not exactly a tropical climate. Megacarpaea polyandra is a great effort, and thank you for putting the time in etc, but the leaves are different. Tho the flowers looked similar, and I'm hoping mine look that good when they open (if they open due to cold front/autumn approaching.!). The leaves on my mystery plant lilt in the day (fighting for water in their current location, even after given a proper soaking), yet at night they seem to inflate and go very stiff, and attain the colour of plants you see for sale in ikea...you know, that almost glowing artificial green. The flowers started out as tiny buds on top of the main stem, but now have grown into an almost christmas tree shape. So as hazel o'conner sings 'it's a mystery'.!:gnthb:

 

I thought that was Toyah.
Cant help I'm afraid.

Anyway I like the leaf shape, who knows what the flowers will look like?

Put me down for a couple of seed please

 

wow..A gardening forum with musicians..cool. Yeah pete..your right,! stupid me.

 

Good lad pete, showing ya age there son.!

 

My Dad told me about her.:lollol:

 

ha,ha. yeah, you'll be saying that you never had her name on your millets canvas bag next.! :yho:

 

Millets canvas bag?

Was that a style statement at some stage then?

I think I peaked before then.

 

We had them at school. Came in two colours, either navy blue or karkai. We then biro'd names of our fav bands on..I'm in my fortys, but my girl friend can't remember them either.!

showing my age now. :dh:

 

Well there you are, a bit after my time.
I was at school in the 60s:flag:

 

Hmmm, cant help, sorry...but it is pretty.

 

This one is intriguing.
Sorry 1st suggestion was duff. The wiki botanical illustration looked a pretty good match. Then later, I found and added "real " pics and I began to have doubts myself.

Did you inherit them, plant them or are they a gift from the birds in a bird seed mix maybe?
I would love to see a close up pic of the flowers when they are open.

 

Hi. ..Me and my partner sold off some assets to buy outright a little terraced home last august. It had previoulsy been rented out and was a mess internally, but the garden was beautifully over grown. In the area where these reside was a couple of shrubs, and thats all. So i spent all winter moving and replanting with some plants we brought with us, and some from the back garden.

Although I'm not too hot on the name side etc (in fact i'm very cold), I'm very lucky when it comes to growing. So this area was taken back to soil, and dug in with potting compound, then planted with a climbing rose, a strange shrub (I wish I had the names for you.!), and some unknown bulbs/clumps I'd found whilst clearing the borders. We had also bought some bulbs from a diy store, as we wanted all white flowers around the entrance to the front door.

Things got interesting in spring as more things grew than I i'd planted, and now the front garden is back to being over grown again, with this mystery plant growing in three seperate areas, and sporting eleven heads of flowers in total with the biggest flower head measuring twelve inch diameter at the base (cone shape) and fourteen inch's higher.

Maybe it was in the potting compost, or because i disturbed the soil, we got the flanders/poppy thing going on.! One neighbour mentioned that a previous owner was spanish, but i've already checked spanish flowers to no avail. I can't see them being that tropical as they wouldn't grow here surely.

I'll post some pictures as they develop, and one flower has very slightly opened, so I predict buttercup type flowers, with anorange/yellow colour and around two hundred on each head.

lovely.