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Favorite Garden Oddity

sprout_wi
20 years ago

Do you have a favorite garden oddity, such as a walking stick cabbage or a yard long bean, that you grow just because it looks so wierd and is such a curiosity?

-Sprout

Comments (4)

  • ocbird
    20 years ago

    Hi Sprout,

    i've been waiting to hear responses, its such an interesting question! i couldn't think of anything in my own garden...

    what about you?

  • Wendy_the_Pooh
    20 years ago

    Okay, I'll bite. The spring plant I secretly adore even more than Fritillaria Imperialis, which comes up about the same time, is Allium Vineale. I baby it and cut down the Echinacea around it because I love its strangeness.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Allium Vineale

  • ankraras
    20 years ago

    Try a web search for Dioscorea elephantipes and Kigelia africana. My specimens are small but I am very found of their uniqueness.


    Ankrara's Hobby Corner

  • laa_laa
    20 years ago

    I have a pregnant onion. I just rediscovered it after about 10 years. I don't remember where it came from or why I have it in the first place. What is it supposed to do? Flower? Grow tall? So far , it has produced one offspring, but is still "pregnant" looking. Anyone know anything about this? L.

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