Author Topic: Any ideas? (Read 3609 times)

escapedtothecountry · « **on:** July 21, 2013, 09:15:08 pm »

What could this plant be?

doganjo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2013, 09:28:14 pm »

Don't know but I saw something similar in the field where I've just been walking the dogs.

escapedtothecountry · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2013, 09:36:33 pm »

It's a perennial as came up last year. Large.... I quite like it!

doganjo · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2013, 10:00:52 pm »

Me too, looks like a sun icon

ddangus · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2013, 02:04:17 pm »

It a perrenial plant from the daisy family called Telekia speciosa not sure whether it has got a common Englsih name. In time it will form a large plant several meters wide definetly something for the back border. The bumblebees and hoverflies seem to like it.

DD

escapedtothecountry · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2013, 03:28:39 pm »

Brilliant! Thanks! May transplant it somewhere out if the overgrown bed I found it in.

doganjo · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2013, 03:30:10 pm »

Ox Eye daisy? Just remembered. Seen them in fields.

Hevxxx99 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2013, 09:17:22 pm »

No, Ox Eye Daisies look like giant normal daisies.
It looks like sunflower family with those leaves and I'll wager it isn't a native.

doganjo · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2013, 10:29:07 pm »

Botanical name: Telekia speciosa

Other names: Heart-leaved ox eye, Ox-eye daisy, Yellow ox-eye, Buphthalmum speciosum

You can see why I was mistaken, they are very similar.