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if you could 'blend' two plants?
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Posted by fabkebab z8B Houston (My Page) on Sat, May 31, 03 at 7:30
| If you could mix any two plants together to create a new plant with the best qualities of both, what would you "create"?
I would combine Lilac and crepe myrtle, to give me a beautiful, fragrant tree. I guess some autumn fruit ould be nice too, so perhaps i would also add a bit of cherry
any other fantasy combinations? |
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RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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| I'd mix the intense royal blue flowers of PHACELIA, with the mile-a-minute growth of HOPS. This hybrid would be one of the easiest and quickest ways to clothe the garden with a truly eyestopping display. |
RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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- Posted by jkom51 Z9 CA/Sunset 17 (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 1, 03 at 22:28
| I would blend the carefree, evergreen, ever-blooming qualities and bushy shrub shape of the Osteospermums, with the beautiful, pure blue of a Delphinium or Gentian Sage. |
RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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| Gardenia for the smell, and this beautiful flower with corkscrewy petals for the looks, and something that would bloom all the time, year round.. |
RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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| Iris with a petunia. The flower and habit of the iris with the staying power and the reblooming of the petunia. |
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| I think I already found mine. I always thought a huge tree full of daisies would be nice, then I discovered the Mexican Daisy Tree. Beautiful yellow daisylike flowers on a 15 foot high shrub. |
RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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| I would definitely like to put the bloom of the rose on a gardenia or a camellia bush. No thorns, fungus, blackspot, rust, mildew, or winter ugliness. |
RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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I would be so tickled to be able to have the incredible lovely Ylang-Ylang flowers with it's delicious scent on the forever wonderful blooming orange jasmine.
Supannee 
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RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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| I would combine the tall Queen of the Prairie (Filipendula), which doesn't need staking, with a blue Delphinium, to make a really stunning Queen of the Delphiniums. |
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| Must be close to suppertime. Two plants aren't enough. I would like a variegated kudzu or Bermuda grass with: the aroma of rosemary when picked or cut; the flavor of orange + banana, er, I mean, Circus Peanuts candy; the crunch of crisp lettuce; and the nutritional value of the most vitamin-rich veggies. It would have some attractive looks and be indestructible; grow faster than I could eat it; double as a most fragrant compost "green" and potpourri; would wean me off of junk foods while making the pruning and harvesting of it worth the effort; and there would always be enough left over for less fortunate others to pick at will so they'd never go hungry or malnourished, if they would only eat it. |
RE: if you could 'blend' two plants?
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I would cross the:
9-to-10 month bloom period of pansies
with the blooms of long stems of HT roses
in endless clusters like a fairy rose
on rambling/climbing rose form with flexible AND sturdy canes...
...which, of course, could be "easily trained as a standard" if one desired! Ahhh I love fantasyland! |
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