Limnanthes Poached Egg Plant

Description: An early, showy annual with saucer-shaped yellow flowers edged with white and has fresh, pale-green leaves.

Newest Review: ... you can imagine from the name the flower of this plant looks like a poached egg , The leaves are a pale green the flower saucer shaped is white tinged with yellow the centre of the plant are a bright yellow. This plant grows about 6 inches/15 cm tall spreads across the ground for 15 inches/40 cm. This flower smells sweet it's a light perfume stronger in the sunshine. If you sow these seeds in ... more

... March after the frosts you will be rewarded my flowers in June through till August. Sow in a seed tray with seed compost and plant out when big enough. You can sow this seed direct into the ground. If you let the poached egg set seed you will get some...more

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Limnanthes Poached Egg Plant: Is that a poached egg in your garden ? (319 words)
by - written on 28/02/08 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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Is that a poached egg I see in your garden? Well it might be Limnanthes douglasii otherwise known as the poached egg plant, sometimes called the scrambled egg plant too. This is an annual I remember my dad growing in his garden as a border plant. Sometimes dads would put on e in the patio pot. Dad would sometimes grow one in a pot for my mum as a houseplant. As you can imagine from the name the flower of this plant looks like a poached egg , The leaves are a pale green the flower saucer shaped is white tinged with yellow the centre of the plant are a bright yellow. This plant grows about 6 inches/15 cm tall spreads across the ground for 15 inches/40 ... Read the complete review