Linaria?

[shelagh]

Hi can anyone help me with this plant's name.  I think it is a Linaria, it has the spurs.  It has been flowering for many weeks but unfortunately I only took it's picture the other day.  Its about 2ft 6 in tall, many branched and is setting copious seed which I intend to send to the seed exchange if I get a name for it.

[David Nicholson]

I've got that too and it self seeds all over the place. Bit of a thug really.

[bulborum]

It is linaria purpurea
there is a pink , blue and a white form

Roland

[David Nicholson]

I've got a self seeded purple form.

[shelagh]

Thank you Roland,

Don't know if it is a thug 'cos I don't know where it arrived from but it's very pretty and long lasting and it won't seed about too much because I'm going to save the seed for the seed exchanges.

[Maggi Young]

Who says there is no such thing as coincidence? (Apart from Sherlock Holmes ans Hercule Poirot?)

In today's Bulb Log, which Ian is just about to load online, there is a purple form of the Linaria - sppoky,  spooky or what?

[bulborum]

I get some plants from the white form in October
so normally next year seeds for the ones interested

Roland

[Alan_b]

That's a lovely looking plant.  Presumably as a native of Italy it likes a warm sunny location?

[Carlo]

Take a look at Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went'. It's a lovely thing and I TRY to keep it going in the garden. It has never acted the thug (yet...).

[loes]

I do have this linaria,Canon J. Went, and also the purple and white forms.
Love these plants and have them in my garden for more than 20 years.
They do selfseed a lot but are easily removed.only young seedlings can be replanted elsewhere.
I never want to be without them.