Author Topic: Vignettes of your gardening memories (Read 8953 times)

Roma · « **Reply #45 on:** June 22, 2020, 07:11:23 PM »

Your euphoria isn't a Euphorbia. Maybe a Hydrangea in the aspera group?

Carolyn · « **Reply #46 on:** June 22, 2020, 08:54:35 PM »

Or it could be something like Salvia turkestanica - it would be useful to see the whole plant!

WSGR · « **Reply #47 on:** June 23, 2020, 05:29:03 AM »

Hello, Folks, so nice to hear from you plantaholics. Whenever I clicked REPLY, I felt dejected as I had nobody to reply to. What a sweet surprise. I will take a picture as I am sure it will flower within the next few days. Here in East London, it will be baking and flowers have responded positively.

My ghostly cactus suddenly woke up yesterday

Their sister

Fuchsia

Salvia Lady in Red

Salvia Bulleyana

Pretty sure it is a Salvia

Roma · « **Reply #48 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:06:17 PM »

Carolyn may be right.

Seedlings of Salvia sclarea ssp. turkestanica 'Vatican Pink. (I hope)

Two years ago I grew 'Vatican Pink' but when it flowered last year it turned out to be a Verbascum -I think V. chaixii so I'm not that good at identifying seedlings. Leaves are quite similar if you don't look too closely

Deinanthe caerulea is in the Hydrangea family which is why I thought your plant might be a hydrangea.

WSGR · « **Reply #49 on:** June 24, 2020, 05:43:31 AM »

Roma: I kept clicking your 2nd pic, hoping to see the florets! Ah, no luck! Wonder if you could take a close up. I love seeing the markings of blooms. I did buy Turkistan clary, but none of them germinated. I hadn't had much luck this year with germination.

The Euphoria is a Clary type. Apparently, it's still teasing me. No vertical spire yet.

Some echinacea all tall and collapsing

A dahlia - quite pretty, but it's the first flower and the petals didn't look neat when it was pristine. Now that it has fully developed, one petal spoils the pic!