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on Aug 12th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Perfectly captured! Bravo!
on Aug 12th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Is that flower giving me the finger????? *giggles*
Nice capture. I don’t think I’ve seen it before.
on Aug 12th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Sure does look like a fist…heheh!!
on Aug 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Michelle, thanks! I wish these would unfurl — I’m dying to see what they look like inside!
Captain Lifecruiser, it’s a semi-polite flower. No finger, just fist. :-)
Deb, yeah, doesn’t it? So strange…
on Aug 12th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Isn’t it a four-o’clock? I love them. Neat flower, and the seed sits down right in the middle of the flower … I have red, orange and yellow, and they reseed like mad. In the right spot (like in my friend’s garden in Nazareth), they act like perennials. Very cool.
on Aug 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
AB, you’re right! I knew I saved all my empty seed packets for a reason… So far I have yellow and red, but haven’t seen them open yet. Now that I know what I should be looking for, I’ll check it out Tuesday afternoon, when I’m working from home.
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I was just about to ask what this was, and then there was the answer. I’ve never grown these, but I’d like to. Maybe next year!
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Great photo….we also call this Marvel of Peru. Happy GTS
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 12:26 am
It does look like a little fist. It looks like a four oclock only the one I used to have was hot pink.
Great photo.
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Aptly labeled photo. The flower color is quite pretty. Happy GTS!
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Kylee, they’re pretty cool — took a long time to bloom, though@
Ruth, I love that it has another name!
Chigiy, the kind I grew are supposed to be assorted colors, so maybe I’ll get one of those. Hmm…
Aiyana, happy GTS to you, too. Thanks for stopping by!
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 10:19 am
What a beautiful and unusual flower. Will it grow in the UK?
Sara from farmingfriends
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 10:29 am
It is my experience that four-o’clocks will grow almost anywhere. They fill a space beautifully. My guess is that in the UK they will be fully annual, though. I’m no expert, so all of my comments are threatened by fact-checking.
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Sara, Anniebetty probably has the best info of all. I’m definitely not a good source, since I forgot what kind of flower I even grew!
AB, your comments are much less threatened than any I might make on the four-o’clocks’ behalf…
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Oh dear. The pressure …
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
AB, I live to help you reach your full potential. :-)
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
The last comment I have on this matter (I think) is that I believe your fisted flower actually bloomed and had closed up when you took the picture. You can see the ones behind it are still rather pointy like an old Christmas light?
These guys open sort of briefly (oh, usually around 4-o’clock) and then sort of crumple in on themselves.
So watch carefully. You don’t want to miss it!
on Aug 13th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
AB, I’m definitely going to try to check them around 4 tomorrow. I wonder if they’re on Central or Eastern Time? Ha!
By the way…I love your avatar. :-)
on Aug 14th, 2007 at 7:52 am
A friend of mine sent that pic to me … it was called something like: “What you do when you have a really big lime, a docile cat and a lot of time on your hands.” I laugh everytime I see it. The cats looks like he’s kind of proud of it, doesn’t he?
The four o’clocks are on their own time. Out my way, they open up in the late afternoon … lovely scent.
on Aug 14th, 2007 at 9:17 am
AB, he definitely does!
on Aug 14th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
OK. So I lied. My friend Karen (there are a lot of us around here) says her 4-o’clocks open in the morning.
ARGH!
on Aug 15th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
It’s OK, AB. Mine definitely didn’t open at 4 p.m. yesterday…one of these days, I’ll figure it out!
on Aug 15th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
How ’bout this … if I catch mine open tomorrow, I’ll post and tell you exactly what time it is. Maybe it’s a rare and effective intelligence test?
on Aug 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pm
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