I bought weeping bottlebrush seeds online and have 2 plants growing nicely for about 4 months. However as they grow I have been searching images online to compare their progress and can't seem to see any likeness in mine and the photos. I know it is early yet but.. mine are about 1 foot tall now and the last month have been sprouting small little lilac flowers on the ends of long tentacle like things. this last week the flowers drop and the tentacles burst/ spread open to reveal tonnes of little seeds on white cotton chutes. (like what happens to dandelions) Is this normal. it seems very weedlike? thanks for any help
You bought Callistemon seeds and they bloomed purple on the ends of tentacles? They weren't Callistemon seeds. I have C. viminalis (weeping bottlebrush) trees, and they bloom red brushes along the branches, and then make hard little seedpods behind that. Can you post a pic? We know what your plants aren't, but seeing them we might be able to tell you what they are.
yep i'll take a photo now! hmm i wonder what they are ..and me thinking they were bottlebrush! hope they are not weeds haha
They're weeds! I get those too in my outdoor containers and yards; I don't know what they are, exactly - but it's a good idea to at least deadhead them if not pull them up.
Are you serious?????????? and I've been nurturing them for months! I knew they didn't look right! got some others to identify also!!!! grr
It looks very like Epilobium. Praps E. ciliatum. Common name American Willowherb. http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/i...ilobium+ciliatum&title_tag=Epilobium+ciliatum http://images.google.com/imgres?img...n-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA_en-GB&sa=N&um=1 Sorry Lila, you posted while I was adding links!
haha i was spending a lot of time on these till i saw those seeds come out! now my girlfriend is making fun!!
Nevermind! :) ("A bolondok rendszerint a mezei virágokért rajongnak. A mezei virágok a föld vad gondolatai, nyÃlnak magoktól, összevissza. A bolondok gondolatai az érzésnek az ész által meg nem nyesegetett vadvirágai. Testvérek.") (Mikszáth Kálmán) It means something like: The wildflowers/weeds are the wild/mad thoughts of the soil, that's why mad people like them! They can understand these mad thoughts... :))) Hm, I like the wildflowers/weeds (too)... so maybe I'm also a bit mad!? :)