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Maggi Young

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Re: Curious wild plant I can't identify !
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2008, 11:17:09 AM »
Paul, I KNEW you were a man of taste!  :-*
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Re: Curious wild plant I can't identify !
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2008, 01:30:48 PM »
Talking of age related memory lapses, they often say that married couples finish each others sentences however in our house we tend to finish the other's plant name as one of us can usually remember only half the name and rely on the other to complete it.  Its just too bad if it has a var. or a ssp.
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Re: Curious wild plant I can't identify !
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2008, 02:21:40 PM »
Worryingly, we can often remember the varietal or ssp. name.... it's the main name we have trouble with :P
One bright side of having your other half finish your sentences is that at least then you know they were listening!! :o ;) ;)
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Re: Curious wild plant I can't identify !
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2008, 07:35:33 AM »
During our stay at Crete my wife and I talked about a town with an airport at the Turkish Black Sea coast. We both didn't remember in the course of two days. Then we phoned our son in Germany asking him: What is the name of a famous Turkish football club ? He replied without a delay ' Tr.....spor '?

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Re: Curious wild plant I can't identify !
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2009, 07:03:06 AM »
Does not look like Monarda (bee balm).  The leaf structure looks more like astilbe, but I'd need a better look at it.  any other pics?
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Re: Curious wild plant I can't identify !
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2009, 02:54:49 PM »
Hi, Woodmyst,
 I think that this is a hitch with different plants having similar common names across the world.... in Europe  this bee friendly  plant, or  bee balm, is a name sometimes given to Phacelia tanacetifolia, (a plant from  theAmericas) whereas I think that Bee Balm in America will refer to a Monarda species, perhaps Monarda fistulosa and Monarda didyma ?

Because different plants have been queried in these pages, I repeat  a photo of the plant in question
 The flowers are  somewhat similar to a Monarda flower head.

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« Last Edit: January 11, 2009, 03:00:00 PM by Maggi Young »
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