Today's name that flower.

[sunshine]

[emilyB]

Daphne or Fireglow?

[takncarabizniz]

I thought daphne at first too, but I don't think the stems are woody enough...
 
Is it a terrestrial orchid?
 
And btw, just how do you remember all the names of your plants...I have given up trying to remember.

[sunshine]

It's a Maltese Cross.    I have a book, I used to look them up when I had nothing better to do. LOL

[takncarabizniz]

My "Bible" is the Western Garden Book.  I read it all the time and take it with me when I shop.  I used to have pretty, little markers in my gardens so that people could see all the varieties of plants (we get so many people walking by who ask what this is or that is...) but the lovely little children of the neighborhood managed to yank them out constantly as they pulled the tops off flowers or trampled the shrubbery or broke branches off the trees to whip each other with...lovely children...and eventually I gave up.
 
Now I've forgotten the names of many of the older plants and some of the new ones (we like to buy in bulk in early Spring to fill in)...oh well...
 

[emilyB]

I have the Royal Horticultural Society Book of Garden Plants and it looks different from your pic, sunshine.  It's under Lychnis chalcedonica and the green leaves look different but now I can see the flowers are the same.

[Dixie]

Oh, what a cool idea for a thread!  I just wish I knew enough about the subject to play with y'all! 

[sunshine]

You can still learn dixie. :-)   That Maltese cross is mixed in with lily leaves.

[sunshine]

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