Bedding plant - please can any1 identify?
Can anyone please exactly identify this bedding/basket plant? It's the orange/red flower and the yellow flower. They seem to be the same plant, just different colours. I bought them and made this basket, but can't remember what they are. I think it's a very pretty flower and want to try and get some more...
Label has gone missing..do you think it's some kind of petunia hybrid? It's definitely not nicotania as the petals are too rounded...the only labels I found from all my baskets are: Nicotiana F1 mixed, petunia single mixed, tumbelina Priscilla, Sufinia and lots of trailing fuschias and begonias which I know these definitely aren't. I've ruled out the former ones too as I put those in different baskets....
I hope someone knows! It's my favorite from all my basket flowers and I don't know what it is. Thanks in advance. :-)
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Mimulus, or Monkey Flower. They like to get their feet wet.
Thank you Alan Clark2! Thanks for such a fast reply! I knew it wasn't one of the usual ones...am so happy to now know the name!! I really love this plant.
Aym i agree...i need to remember it for next years baskets.
I like the spotted versions!
http://www.dobies.co.uk/Garden/Flowers/Flower+Seeds/Flower+Seeds+K+to+M/Mimulus+Little+Devil+F2+Seeds_421523.htm
Oh yes, very beautiful. They look like trailing orchids....very different from the norm...
Oh, and is this flower a perrenial?
No, it is annual.
Can I collect the seeds after it finishes? Have you ever done this?
I have never done it with mimulus, but you can certainly collect the seeds, although dead-heading will encourage it to produce more flowers. I would just leave a few flowers to produce seeds and remove the rest. You get a lot of seeds from one pod.
Last edited: 28 June 2016 13:58:39
Thanks, will try