REEEEALLY OT. Flowers.

So can the FOAK tell me what the name of the flower is that only blooms for
one day?

We've got a few in planters oop 'ere and so far two have blossomed, looked
really nice and the folded up their respective tents and fucked off. All
within a 24 hour period.

Yellow petals they have, wiv a red centre blobby thing and a yellow spiky
bit dead centre.

Obviously, I couldn't GAF, but it's the wife y'see, she wants to know and I
can't find anyfing wi' Google.


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Day lilly?
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:e
n-GBfficial&hs=UVs&q=day+lilly&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

 

In

Daffodils next to the local pikey site near us. One day and they're all
hacked down for door to door selling

 

'Kin hell, there's a few on there, but none of them match ours. Ours only
has 3 petals, so it's obviously a cast alloy one.


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The Doctor suggests an Arum Lily. Or member of the species.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

My 20 yr old cactus (some sort of Night blooming Cereus) is getting
ready to flower, and this year there are seven buds, which will produce
large very pale pinky-purple trumpets that last for 24 hours and that
have a knock-out heady scent, better than any honeysuckle.

 

Roses used to only last a day, but yours don't sound like roses.

A Cassandre

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avoit desclose
Sa robe de pourpre au Soleil,
A point perdu ceste vesprée
Les plis de sa robe pourprée,
Et son teint au vostre pareil.

Las ! voyez comme en peu d'espace,
Mignonne, elle a dessus la place
Las ! las ses beautez laissé cheoir !
Ô vrayment marastre Nature,
Puis qu'une telle fleur ne dure
Que du matin jusques au soir !

Donc, si vous me croyez, mignonne,
Tandis que vostre âge fleuronne
En sa plus verte nouveauté,
Cueillez, cueillez vostre jeunesse :
Comme à ceste fleur la vieillesse
Fera ternir vostre beauté.

-- Ronsard (1524-1585)

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We used to have a massive amount of daffs near us, but the pikey's took the
lot before plod stopped them.


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message

That's got a sort of circular "uni-petal" rather than the three we've got.
It's close though and I suspect it's a lily of some kind.


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plantago major

 

I was going to suggest taking a piccie but I guess they've stopped
flowering now.

don't worry, I'm just having a YTC moment.
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Pat suggests putting as much as you know about the plant in here.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantselector/default.aspx

 

Good job I'm not and had the foreskin to take one when it was in bloom.

Where (and how) to post it up somewhere is another thing entirely though, s
these puter and web based things are a mythtery to me.


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Did that, got this....

"An unknown error has occurred, the system administrator will automatically
be notified. If the error persists please send an email to
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We do apologise for any inconvenience caused"



Bugger!




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A pongy one eh. None of my flowering cacti pong. Any chance of an
offset?

 

Oddly enough uk.rec.gardening seems to be a really rather good place for
flower identification and similar stuff. Actually it is about all they
are good for as they seem to know **** about how to grow things but they
are the dogs bollox at telling folks what they are from half a
description and an out of focus pickie[1].


[1] Thinking about it maybe Thenyor Carmicheal was right and they are
very much like ukrm.

 

Beav wrote:

Drop me a mail with it and I'll stick it up somewhere.

 

steve auvache wrote

Yeah sure, can do, but no offsets at present, though I can put aside the
next that appear.

I acquired it as a pea-sized shrivelled offset from a nearly dead cactus
on the windowsill of the Phys lab at a college in Yorkshire, back in
198(mumble).
It lived and thrived, and over the years I have removed all offsets
immediately, so that I now have a single cactus about the size of a fat
and top-heavy milk bottle.
It was also about ten years before it produced the first bloom, (much to
my amazement and delight), so be warned not to expect an overnight
sensation.
I'll take pics on the day, and post them somewhere.

 

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:08:43 GMT, "Beav"

One of my friends has a garden full of evening primrose that look a
bit like that description.

 

Yummy ta.

Water and feed the spiny little fucker