Help me identify this seedling

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

Hi all,

I am a complete beginner to gardening and sowed a LOT of seeds in February in my hotpress. Unfortunately I didnt label any so now I am looking at all these thriving plants and do not know where to plant them. I sowed a mix of veg and flowers. I attach pictures of some of them and would be really grateful and if anyone could identify some of them for me. Many thanks.

Bobby · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

Hi Lilylarkin,
The top pic just might be tarragon, you could try tasting a little bit off one of the leaves to check. I'd say the other two are almost certainly flowers.

barremic · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:22 am Post subject:

Do you have any of the seed packets from feb that you planted, it may help narrow them down.

Do the leaves on the bottom picture feel almost like a suculent?

James Kilkelly

Last pic.....

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

Hi Bobby,

Ive just been through my packets of seeds and the only herbs I planted were basil and parsley. The parsley i can recognise. The other veg I planted were cucumbers, peppers, spinach, beans and tomatoes. I recognise the beans and tomatoes.

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

Hi, thanks for the response, below are the list of seed packets:-

Livingstone Daisy Mix
Heliopsis
Geranium
Phlox Paniulata
Akelei Aquilegia
Hemerocallis Mix
Incarvillea Delavayi
Sweet Alyssum
Callistephus, Aster
Dianthus Caryophyllus
Chinese Annual
Antirrhinum Majus
Myosotis Alpestris
Lathyrus Odoratus
Snapdragon

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

Hi Barremic,

Yes the leaves do feel succulent and thick and have almost furry feel.

James Kilkelly · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:16 pm Post subject:

Livingstone Daisy Mix that's your Mesembryanthemum (pic 3) Lilylarkin

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

Great thanks. Thats great and it is blooming and I planted it out last night in the hope that it was a flower and not a veg. I fully expect to find cucumbers and peppers growing in my flowerbeds!

Thank you for the response.

Bobwilliams · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject:

Number 2 looks very like spinach.

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

2 down 1 to go!!

I planted livingstone daisy mix out last night and it says on the packet (now that i know which packet to read) plant out late may. Should i take them back in?

barremic · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject:

Maybe if we ruled out some of the list

picture one is defo not

hemerocallis
Livingstone Daisy Mix
Geranium
Dianthus Caryophyllus
Antirrhinum Majus
Snapdragon

IMO i dont think it is any of these above

Bobby · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject:

Hi Liliylarkin,
Your pictures are definitely NOT cucumbers or peppers.

Garlicbreath · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject:

It could be the aster (pic 1 I mean)

Lilylarkin · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 11

I think it might be hemerocallis and I looked up a pic of that flower and it seems to have long narrow leaves?