Melissa has challenged me to identify a plant she showed on her blog, the prize is FREE sock yarn! How awesome is that? Well, I spent about an hour doing some research on possibilities and came up with quite a few. See, the picture she posted was just the plant showing the leaf formation, no flowers to help as clues. Well, I decided to get some pics of the plants in my garden that I chose as my top educated (grin) guesses.
Melissa’s picture
The first thing I thought of was that it belonged to the mint family, it has the opposing leaves that mints are famous for. Here’s a spearmint that I have growing.
But the leaves of Melissa’s plant didn’t look as thick as most mints do.
So, I thought for sure it was Lemon Balm, and I think that’s what it is. But someone else has already guessed this AND you never know…
The other possibilities, and also in my garden are
Bee Balm - but Melissa’s doesn’t seem tall enough
Lantana - mine have pointier leaves
Well, we’ll see if I win the sock yarn or not. I do know that I’ve already won the beautiful plants that I have in my garden. I’d like to show you the showstopper that’s blooming right now.
My honeysuckle is exploding with flowers. The other picture is the hostas that are growing just in front of the honeysuckle.
It looks like the hosta plants need dividing next year. Next year’s project will be a shade garden along the long drive. A gardener’s work is never done, it’s always a work in progress.
