we have lived in this house for 3 summers now and this plant keeps coming up near my blackberries. It could be a weed or might have been planted there years ago. Anyone know what this is? i was thinking it was some kind of Chrysanthemum.
Thanks...looks like other images online! I think I might relocate it into a flower bed, now that I know it isn't a weed!
I was thinking along the lines of EJ... a Lavatera or possibly a malva. I'm leaning more towards a malva, as it looks a bit like one I saw a few weeks ago. The Malva moschata 'alba'. It's a bit difficult for me to see those flowers, as the sunlight is reflecting somewhat harshly. If you take another foto use an umbrella to shade the plant or take it in the very late afternoon. I get this same problem with my daisies and white Phlox.
It looks a more like the geranium album then the lavatera or the Malva moschata 'alba, the leaves are wrong on the later two.
I agree re the seed pods it is definitely in the Malvaceae family. How about saving some seeds, I could trade some of my yellow hardy Hibiscus.
I will see what I can do. I have never harvested seeds before. I hope the plant is still doing well. It rained hard for 24 hours yesterday and sometimes extremely hard. Any help in harvesting the seeds would be great!
Well, I would wait until the stem (or at least the seedpods) are dry and brown. Then I would carefully cut the stem and place the stem upside-down in a paper bag and just hang it up somewhere dry...and wait. Eventually the pods will split open and the seeds will fall out and into the bottom of the paper bag. I would suggest that you store the seeds in a paper bag as well, as opposed to a plastic one, because any remaining moisture in the seeds could cause some 'sweating' with ensuing mould colony formation.
