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Title: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: agapanthus on May 29, 2006, 10:25:07: Can anyone help identify these flowers please?
The first picture (mauve fluffy flowers) grows to about 5' tall
and the other is in a basket (has been for years) and flowers most of the growing year.
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: Tulipa on May 29, 2006, 10:46:52: I can't help you but am intrigued to know what they are. I thought the one in the basket looks like a vinca of some sort from the shape of the flower and leaves. Looks a very useful plant for a basket if it flowers so long like that. When someone identifies it I shall rush out and try and get one!

Are they both in flower at the moment?
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: agapanthus on May 29, 2006, 10:48:23: Yes they are Tulippa ;D
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: tim on May 29, 2006, 10:50:43: Specktackilir -

- but TOO BIG!!
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: agapanthus on May 29, 2006, 11:25:26: All the better to see then Tim!
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: MikeB on May 29, 2006, 16:07:37: The hanging basket flower looks like a geranium (not the half hardy Pelargonium) crane's-bill. The first one I don't know, but as soon as it is identified I'll be buying one. Lovely plant agapanthus.
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: froglets on May 30, 2006, 09:43:38: First one looks like Thalictrum
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: MikeB on May 30, 2006, 09:48:42: Quote from: froglets on May 30, 2006, 09:43:38
First one looks like Thalictrum

Not according to the picture in the flower expert book? ;) ;)
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: froglets on May 30, 2006, 09:57:14: Have a look at this

http://www.em.ca/garden/per_thalictrum_aquilegifolium1.html
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: agapanthus on May 30, 2006, 12:31:40: Thank you Froglets....definitely the one ;D ;D
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: barkingdog on May 30, 2006, 12:56:00: Hi,

I think the second one is Saponaria ocymoides. The first one is definately Thalictrum!

barkingdog
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: MikeB on May 30, 2006, 17:56:13: I stand corrected, but the picture in the flower expert is definately different :D :D
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: agapanthus on May 30, 2006, 18:47:26: Never mind MikeB.... ;D
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: agapanthus on May 30, 2006, 19:00:05: Thank you Barkingdog....just googled for a look and it's definitely that! ;D
Picked it up a while back (about 9 years) ....was cheap at a roadside nursery in suffolk...'bout
50p if I remember correctly. It is an absolute gem of a plant. Starts flowering
at the beginning of spring....I then give it a haircut when the flowers start fading
...early summer and within a couple of weeks it's in full flower again. I've only repotted it
twice since I've had it, but do feed it.
Thanks for everyone's help. ;D
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: froglets on May 31, 2006, 08:33:38: Hi Mike,

The picture in your book might be Thalictrum Delvayi or T flavum. As with many plants there are a selection of variants within the species. Just like with us lot!
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: MikeB on May 31, 2006, 11:10:09: Here's my excuse
Title: Re: 2 plants needing identification please
Post by: froglets on May 31, 2006, 13:55:04: Aha!. I killed the one on the right hand picture twice in my Alpine troughs so held off getting Hewitts Double at the time because I thought I's kill that too. Now I see it would have been out of proportion in the alpine corner. Now, if I can just manufacture a space.........