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Anybody know what these are?
I think they look like some kind of Star Creeper....

Could this be the same thing?

I think it is, but I still don't know what it is!
It's a low growing bush type plant... almost a ground cover, that's out by my driveway! It's at the end of the yard where I don't normally pull the hose out to, so I know it's draught tolerant because it's been there for 2 years that I know of, & hardly ever gets watered during our scorching summers! (Funny, I don't remember flowers on it last year... of course, I wasn't paying much attention to flowers then, either!)

I'm sayin' no,
but that's not an absolute..

To me, they just don't match up...

Anyone else??????????

I don't know what the avatar is, but I don't think it is a creeping/moss phlox.

Patty, the avatar looks like a wildflower that pops up in my lawn (which I do mow around it !)

The stuff in your driveway is like gardencrazy said, phlox sublata, or creeping phlox. It is one of my all time favorite flowers . It puts on a great show in the spring, looks great in masses of different colors, I've got purple, dark pink, light pink, white, and my fav candy stripe (pink and white stripes). It requires such little care and like you said very drought tolerant, so I can put it down front where I never get to with the hose.

Jacob's ladder?

I think they are what I call "bluets",this site calls them "Quaker ladies" and they pop up on everyones' lawns in the spring!

Houstonia caerulea (Hedyotis caerulea

Or are they some kind of "forget-me-not"????

huh?

No to the Jacob's Ladder....
No to the fmn's...
and the second one Mel posted looked in the
same type sorta....... but Patty's flower has
5 petals, the one you posted has only 4.....

The first one Mel posted is what it sounds like to me, sorta... I think my neighbor gets them..
but if I remember correctly..... those one's have some kind of stripe thru them from the center out..

Mel do you have any pictures of the one in your lawn???

Right Weezie, I noticed also the five petal/four petal difference , and yet they are so similar besides that! Mine aren't blooming yet, usually late spring, but when they do I'll post a pic if they look any different from the ones on the site I linked to.

Yep her's aren't blooming yet either...

If they are the same ones that I think they are..
the one part is different too that holds the flower on to the stem..

but I will like to see them very much...

Mel,
Is this the kind of flower you have in the spring?
Whatchya think?????
Howittia trilocularis???? Still not 100% sure?????

did that avatar come from one of bill's pics? if it did maybe he'd know?

Jamie, yes, that's one of Bill's avatars. If you look up at my first post here, you'll see that it's dated Feb 8th.... Apparently, NOBODY knows what it is, because when I noticed those flowers in my yard this week, I had to scrounge around to find this topic & bring it back up front on April 1st!

If nobody comes up with a name for my avatar, I think I'll just name it, myself! I don't know what I'll do for a botanical name, cuz Latin is "Greek" to me!

My Garden club meets tomorrow & there will be a number of Master Gardeners there... I'm taking a branch off the bush in the second post, to have them ID it for me... I know I'm not the only one in town with this plant, so somebody will know!

Patty it looked like a forget me not (wildflower) to me.

Patty, Gardencrazy and I did ID your driveway flowers!

Take a picture of your avatar for the garden club ladies to ID

I agree with Gardencrazy/Donna and Mel's reply to the driveway one... creeping phlox....

And NO still to the forget~me~nots being the avatar one...
The shape of the flower petals is just not the same.. it's close, it's in the ballpark, but definately not the same... at least to my eyeballs..

Weezie, I am with you it isn't a forget~me~not. I have seen the flower before but my mind is apparently on vacation.

The second picture is definitely creeping phlox.

okay, this is just a shot in the dark???


Nooooooooooooo, it's not......just went back and peaked.. this one's 4 petals, Patty's is 5..
Darn it all to heck!!

I think you nailed the Avatar, Princess... the photo you put up sure looks like it!
(Beautiful color!)

At this point, we have THREE mystery flowers on this thread!

Patty~ Here is a better picture of a forget~me~not. I really don't think it is the same flower.
Pink Forget-me-not


Weezie~ Is that a candytuft?

We're talking about the Avatar now, right? (Not my driveway flower.)

Gardencrazy, I couldn't get your link to work, but you say PINK forget-me not? I always thought that they were ONLY blue, & I have blue ones in my yard, but they're not up yet.

So, if forget-me-nots come in pink & blue, I'm thinking they could come in purple, as well! (The blossom itself, & even the center in Princess's photo looks SOOO close!)

Hi, Patty!

Yep I am looking at the avatar. LOL

If you do a search for Myosotis sylvatica 'Victoria rose' you should see a pink forget-me-not.

Ok How about this one?

CENTAURIUM erythraea

Yes, it is...
I saw it in my photoalbum, and I thought maybe,
but once I posted it and scrolled back and forth,
it didn't match....

Forget~me~nots come in blue, pink, white, and purple...

And when I first started doing stuff in this back yard...
I FOUND A NEW VARIETY......
IT WAS PINK W/ A BLUE STRIPE DOWN THE MIDDLE....
That was one of the reasons' I started surfing the web for info... I wanted to find a person that could help me propagate it....
but by the time I found somebody remotely able to help, the plant had demised I was going to be rich and famous for having a new breed.. :rolleyes: oh well, maybe it'll come back...

Mel,
Heres' the flowers I was talkin' about that
spring up in the spring time...

Do they look like yours?????????
Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)

Okay, how about this one for Patty's Avatar??
Pink Yarrow?????

I'm not so sure, but thought I'd post it anyways?

I think the petals in that link are more fatter and crinkly looking than patty's avatar weezie

Yeah I figured, but I'm grasping at straws...

WOA! I can't believe how many flowers are fitting in here! They're all so close! (Weezie, I'm really leaning toward that spring beauty at this point.)

Since the lighting available for pictures can cause the colors to appear in different shades, it's really a hard call. (I've taken pics of a burgundy Iris, both with & without the flash... one caught the true burgundy color, & the other made it look brown; even when I lightened the pic with a photo editor!) I'm just tickled to see all the purple flowers that people are finding here, & that has made this thread so much fun!

Maybe we should combine all these names & come up with one that would encompass them all... such as, "Creeping foroculari scentuft yarrow beauty"! :rolleyes:

Oh... by the way, remember the pic I posted on up the first page of this thread?
(This one, of the Creeping Phlox:)

At the time, I didn't know that it would keep blooming & make so many flowers! OR that I had more than one of those bushes... which would EXPLODE!

Looky here:

Aren't they GORGEOUS?

I'm just tickled purple!! I'm wondering, since it's called "creeping"... are these going to get bigger & spread out more?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah, they don't just name
just any ole thing "Creeping" if it didn't..

I have some in the back, I am just about ready
to strangle in the back 40 garden..
I'ts' all over..
I have to get back there, and pull some out and put it on the hill/bank...
Just gotta finish 954 projects before I can... :rolleyes:

WOW! Do you mean to say that I can chop these up & line them out so they'll run together & look like a purple blanket every spring?

You have only 954 projects going? How come you get away with such little numbers? My list keeps growing, cuz the weeds are growing faster than I type, & I can't seem to get outside! I think what I need here is a POWER OUTAGE!)

Oh yeah Patty, just prepare an area where
you want a new clump, like scratch up the soil,
loosen it up....
/Then go back to the patch you want to divide..
and pull apart, or take some clippers, or what ever you feel comfortable with..

then place that clump on top of the soil and make sure it has contact with the soil.. maybe fill in some dirt over it, thru the cracks, you'll see where sometimes it gets stretchy limbs, and you can throw dirt right on top...


It will make roots along each and every node where there is a branch like appendage..

That's tooooo funny, I know exactly what you mean..
Truelyyyyy I do....
It's such a nice day out side, just perfect,
GOD couldn't have made a better day than today,
and I'm inside typin'..
But I just can't stay away....

Ok guys, this has been on my mind because I KNOW I've see it! Anyway, today at lunch I was flipping thru a seed catalogue, and there it was!! Could this mystery plant be Silene (catchfly)??? Sure looks similar...

Kinda looks like a different collor of this which is a mystery to me too..

Is that picture of white catchfly? I have pink. I've never seen it white!!

I have no clue Just posted it in a different mystery thread.. its a bush that is all I know.
It is white though!

Catchfly
What do you think?

The link didn't work for me for some reason Netty.

not for me either.....

i think the avatar is a hoya bloom, but i might be wrong, have been before.

Sorry about that link! It works for me but I'll see if I can find another one. I notice that when searching I found it referred to as "Sweet William Catchfly"

SpringFeaver, WOW!

(I love a good mystery!)

I think it does it is a spirea bush

Hey Christina, Mel, Jamie, Lisa, Gardencrazy, Netty, Jiffy & Rita... guess what?
After 6 months, Weezie found it!

Bacopa sutera You're the bestest!

Shoot, I thought I had already guessed bacopa. I was watering in one of the greenhouses awhile back and remember thinking how much the bacopa looked like your lovely unnamed avatar, but I thought I had already ruled that out!

I never would have guessed Bacopa! Good eye Weezie!

Well, I was just reading that one post,
and those flowers just jumped out at me...
Thinkin', maybe, just maybe that those were it..

I know eventually you have to come acrossed it.