"A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place."
George Washington Carver
This week I downloaded a nifty new iPhone app called Garden Compass. It allows you to send a photo of a plant (or plant disease) to a panel of experts somewhere, and they get back to you in a day or so with an identification. All for free. How cool is that?
But the very first photo I sent stumped them completely. This tall yellow flower is growing in a friend's yard on Mercer Island and he has no idea how it got there. Plant Compass claims they couldn't find it in any of their weed or flower sources! What? Every plant in a major metropolitan area has a name, unless it blew in from Mars.
If you have any ideas let me know. Dan, maybe you could show it to Becky? I know she's an expert on "things that grow in the wild."
Of course. However, if the experts do not know....Unless it really is just a one-person band.
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