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Miscellaneous => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: John on January 22, 2012, 11:44:30 AM
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Slightly unusual though I suspect someone will know it. I've not cropped too much this time to make it less difficult. Flowering now with me!
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I can't imagine you have red salvias flowering with you now?
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No I don't but Salvia roemeriana has only just finished flowering!
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Monarda?
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What's in bloom where you are does not help much, could be anything. Lobelia cardinalis or one of the other scarlet lobelias?
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Not Monarda and this time for me it is flowering later than before. It was outdoors until the frosts and then came in under glass.
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Many years ago I grew this plant from a cutting from the Chelsea Physic Garden. This plant was from wild seed given to me by Harry Hay.
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So this probably means that it must be from bulb of some kind?
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No it is not!
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A red salvia?
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Salvia dombeyi?
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Salvia coccinea?
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No, and no.
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This is intriguing! Can you show a close up of the whole stem please?
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I suggested Lobelia cardinalis or one of the other scarlet lobelias a while ago, which I did not get an answer to, is this one out?
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Pamela, no not yet and actually I don't have a stem shot but may take one later if needed!
Jorun, no to Lobelia!
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OK Pamela here's a stem picture. You should get it now!
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Still struggling with such a clue!
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The stem did not help me much.
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It was supposed to help Pamela, not you!
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What about Accanthus sennii.
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I should have known you would get it. Yes, correct. A love(ly) shrub even if it is very vicious.
Though this potted plant flowered well the bracts died just as it came out which wasn't very attractive!
Typing error, the love shrub bit!
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Wow, That's a super picture, John! (And I like your invention of this new gardening category, "love shrubs"....)
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Just a minute, this is Acanthus senni, flowering in the MGS garden; it has pink/purple flowers and narrower leaves.
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No I believe this one is Acanthus arborescens? Certainly not A. sennii.
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The Sparoza plant's leaves are surely nothing like the leaves of Acanthus arboreus (syn. A arborescens). But I agree, its flowers don't seem nearly full enough for A. sennii. Does A. sennii vary very much?
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OK A. arboreus. I'm sticking with that for now until proved something else. What do the Israeli experts think? It's also quite likely that they grow quite a range of these east African species in frost free areas.
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I also think the Acantus in Sparozza is A. arboreus, surly not A. sennii.