Plant identification please

Davesnave

twopenny said:

I've never seen that before and didn't grasp the flower shape from the link photos. Very intriguing. Does it seed prolifically like the standard one and can the bees and butterflies get access to the nectar in those long flowers?

Dave it's only if the flamigo is solar lit  at night that you need to worry.

Its not a seed-arounder, like davidii. It's not very tough either from how I remember it. Here, in the Devon hills, I prefer toughies like 'Dartmoor,' 'Lochinch' and  'Pink Delight.' 'Dartmoor' wins in the butterfly attraction stakes every year.

The flamingo is only one of several possibilities, the most disturbing being the donkey with twin baskets of petunias.

MalMonroe

Lemonadedrinker said:

the purple flowered plant please 

I spell it a little differently but agree it's a buddleja lindleyana.
And that one needs watering, stat!

Hope it's still alive.  

MalMonroe

Davesnave said:

mufi said:

Catsacor said:

I agree with @Davesnave , B Lindleyana, i have one here and the OP's picture looks the same.

When it comes to gardening (and most other things, actually) I always agree with Davesnave.

Be careful; I'm entering the age now when many people take to reading the Daily Express, placing plastic flamingoes in their front gardens and trimming bushes into disturbingly unnatural shapes!

NOBODY should ever reach the age when they take to reading the Daily Express. *shudders*

Davesnave

I spell buddleia that way because it follows best practice in Latin. However, given the grief I endured in Latin lessons, people are welcome to do whatever they like with it!

twopenny

I took a cutting from the ones that grow wild by the sea. Multiple colours I could choose for scent and colour.

Current one is a cutting from that so no idea as to names.

It would explain why when I bought a couple of buddieia plants from Poundland I thought they'd packed the wrong plant because one is 'delicate' and the other is too darned tough and grows with the speed of light and when I can get it out - it will be 're located'

I'll watch the other with interest now.

I'm dyslexic so spell the name of that plant any way you want. I won't know the difference.

Lemonadedrinker

Its still alive with fresh green shoots and new flowers, I was given 2 and the other ive cared for the same and its just woody no new shoots or flowers, so don't know where ive gone wrong with that one. 

Lotus2760

Lemonadedrinker said:

the purple flowered plant please 

It is a purple Salvia - very nice.

Davesnave

Lotus2760 said:

Lemonadedrinker said:

the purple flowered plant please 

It is a purple Salvia - very nice.

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