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emch

Gardening in mostly deep shade in Zone 6. My passion is adding more native plants to my landscape & clearing out the foreign invasives.

Beta Vulgaris subsp. Vulgaris 'Ruby'

  • Season Icon Early SummerEarly Summer 2022
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emch

Help me identify this plant. Chard? Dock? Spotted at the Post Orifice PlantID

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jastyn

kinda looks like red-vein sorrel 🤔

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kelsey92

Rhubarb

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usgardentags

It looks like chard to us!

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emch

TY @usgardentags -- I thought it looked a lot like chard but who would ever plant it at the Post Office, am I right?

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KariSamuel

Definitely #swisschard, but I wonder why it's planted at the post office?! 🤔 Are their other edible plants nearby? Great foliage, but even better in my belly! 😉🥬 #curiouscases

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emch

The Brighton Garden Club does all the planting, They call this area a butterfly station and it has a weird mix of native wildflowers like Culver's Root and Ironweed, fragrant annuals like Alyssum, flowers that are almost as butterfly-useless as plastic ones like Knock Out roses, and a couple lettuces and first the first time this year, chard. There is also a single dill plant, rose campion, some weird 6" sunflowers, and off in another spot a single penstemon and a wild stand of milkweed.

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