Thursday, August 20, 2009

Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!

This past spring we bought some flowers and planted them in front of our apartment, including marigolds. About that same time, Olivia brought home a marigold plant she had planted at school. Now, three months later, this is what they look like...

One of the marigold plants we bought from Wal-Mart:


The "marigold" plant Olivia grew from a seed at school (is it a tree??):

What IS this thing at the top? It's not a regular marigold blossom!

They lied, I tell you... they lied.

3 comments:

*Jess* said...

sorry, but I've never seen a marigold plant that has blossoms and leaves like that!

Unknown said...

Its a trifid....watch out...remember seawater kills them..

Dad

Unknown said...

On looking at the leaves...you might want to pull it up and destroy...do not burn...I would hate to see you arrested for growing marijuana...

Just kidding...but leaves look a lot like...hard to remember since I was a substance abuse officer in the Army...

Dad