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Diane Whitehead

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Hummingbird flowers
« on: September 11, 2010, 07:24:41 PM »
A friend has a collection of cups and saucers showing hummingbirds.
The birds are named but the accompanying flowers are not.  They are
all presumably from the Andes, as that is where most hummingbirds live.

There are bomarea, impatiens and fuchsias, though we don't know the species.
 I would love to grow the purple one - in my greenhouse I guess - if I knew what
it is.  And one has funny spiky seedballs, similar to some clematis species.



Diane Whitehead        Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
cool mediterranean climate  warm dry summers, mild wet winters  70 cm rain,   sandy soil

Lesley Cox

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Re: Hummingbird flowers
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2010, 12:24:30 AM »
What lovely things they are Diane. They remind me a little of 3 plates I have with Geranium - or probably Pelargonium - flowers on. I must find them, still packed away in a box from when we moved over 13 years ago!
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

 


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