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Our gardens, a month-by-month pictorial diary of what's looking good now => Our Gardens => Topic started by: Fleur Pavlidis on January 05, 2012, 12:40:34 PM
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While I was photoing the miserable spartiums I couldn’t resist snapping these jolly heathers nearby. Erica arborea, they seem to have no intention of becoming tree-like but they flower reliably every year whether the grass gets cut or not.
Pamela mentioned a while ago what a great plant Euryops pectinatus is, and I have to agree with a photo of one of my many plants blooming away today next to a dwarf Polygala that I’m very fond of. This Euryops has lovely cut-out grey-green leaves. Another winner, although slightly less hardy, is this small-flowered Euryops with bright green needle-like leaves whose name I’ve forgotten. I was surprised to see it being grown at Hidcote Gardens because mine was badly burnt by a hard frost some years ago although, as you can see, it grew back from a surviving branch.
Eriocephalus africanus has also been mentioned elsewhere, here with a Salvia teucrium ‘Azurea’ which I brought back from Turkey because it looked particularly floriferous.
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Thanks for the sunshine, Fleur, a very welcome change from the stormy gales which have been battering us here in UK.
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Yes - thank Fleur.
Euryops pectinatus - added to my wants list, especially since it seems attractive to butterflies.
Maybe your unknown one is E. tysonii?
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Hi Fleur, the Erica is not the white flowered E. arborea but the other common Erica manipuliflora. E. arborea is often a shrub but larger and occasionally a tree. I have seen such large plants with a single trunk in Tenerife and Madeira. Does the Euryops flower for a long period with you? Or should I ask when does it not flower?