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This is one of many pages describing plants and animal life that we have in our garden. In many cases, we don't know what they are. Comments welcome.
By default the photos on this page are relatively small (“thumbnails“). Click on them to get progressively larger photos.
We bought this plant in Napoleons in February 2011, thinking it was a Fuchsia. It's clearly not that, but it took a while to find out what it is; finally Laurel Gordon told us that it's Mirabilis jalapa, a Peruvian plant (again!) named after a Mexican city. It's perennial and likes full sun, so we can now do something with it. There are two plants, one with red flowers and the other with yellow.
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The flowers appear to open at night and shut in the daytime (thus the mistaken identity):
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