I took the above photos on my cell phone to my mother and asked her if she knew what the flower was and she told me it was a petunia, because she used to grow them all the time back at her old house.
Then she started singing a song I don't recall hearing since kindergarten, called 'I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch'.
I have no idea how a petunia found its way into my backyard as there are none growing in my neighbour's yards from what I can see.
I said to her that she could have the flower if she wanted it for her yard, if I could manage to dig it out without damaging the roots.
Mum said she would have it so I dug it out and it has been transplanted to a new home and away from a sewer pipe, which would probably smell worse than an onion patch if that pipe had have leaked onto it:-)
The popular flower of the same name derived its epithet from the French, which took the word petun, meaning "tobacco," from a Tupi–Guarani language.
An annual, most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (Petunia × atkinsiana, also known as Petunia × hybrida)."
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the storm of October 17th had something to do with planting that seed in my backyard, because it wasn't there a week ago.
An' pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by ...?
"Petunias are generally insect pollinated, with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird-pollinated species."
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An' pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by ...?
"Petunias are generally insect pollinated, with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird-pollinated species."
We don't have hummingbirds in Australia, so maybe it was a Crowe?-)
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