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Plant ID (part 1/2)
This past April, I went to the gardening section of a hardware store and noticed that bees really seem to be attracted to Scabiosa flowers (pic related) so I went to see if there were any seeds and only saw that they had Annual Scabiosas. The plant in the picture is a Perennial Scabiosa but I didn't want to buy the whole plant (I like to grow plants from seeds) so I saw a dying bloom, deadheaded it and put it in my pocket, waited two weeks for the seeds to dry then I planted it. It grew and the blooms began to appear two weeks ago.
I was shocked that the parent plant (seen in the picture) had blue/purple blooms and the plant that actually grew ended up having orange flowers (in my next post) so I'm not sure if that is genetics or what. On further inspection, I noticed the Scabiosa leaves don't look anything like the plant that actually grew from the seeds that I obtained from the deadheading....
