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"Maybe yes and maybe no," said Frog.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Flowers
England has a number of beautiful flowers, several of which I've never seen before. Today's list is thirty pictures of flowers that Michelle and Maggie took in a short walk around Merstham.
Okay you guys, this is just an irresistable chance for me to see if I can Name These Plants!! Here we go...if I can't list them all in one entry, I will continue on another. Love, your (plant nerd) Aunt Mary.
1)Uh oh, hate to start out on a dud, but I am not sure what this is-- looks like a tulip, but not this late, right? Maybe a type of daylily?
2) Some lovely roses, of course.
3) Purple pansies, very sweet.
4) Spirea-- a showy form.
5) I think this is Senecio greyi in flower. Nice!
6) One you are not likely to know from 'bama-- too hot there for this lovely yellow corydalis.
7)Foxgloves, (digitalis) with more roses behind.
8) Uhhh-- some small minty thing in bloom, maybe...
9) Wow, nice white cup and saucer, aka campanula, bellflower...
10)...and a nice pink form of the campanula.
11) Lychnis coronaria, aka rose campion. I would love to hear all the different names the English have for these!
12) hmmm, maybe a mock orange? I bet this smelled good!
13) More roses!
14)...and yet more roses.
15) And another foxglove, white.
16) I'm stumped. Proving you can't know it all, thank goodness.
17) A begonia.
18) A kind of geranium-- the species type, not the hothouse kind. This is one of my alltime fave plants. A common one is, believe me, "Johnson's blue," which this might be!
19) Some cool lookin osteospermum-- a type of african daisy.
20) Orange rose!
21) Another species geranium, pink.
22) Those same campanula, only a smaller variety of bellflower.
23) Begone, begonia.
24) Knifophia, aka Red Hot Poker, for obvious reasons. You can grow this down south.
25) and a rose!
Hey, that's only 25!! But what a great garden tour for me, I really had fun! Thanks Michelle!
Okay you guys, this is just an irresistable chance for me to see if I can Name These Plants!! Here we go...if I can't list them all in one entry, I will continue on another. Love, your (plant nerd) Aunt Mary.
ReplyDelete1)Uh oh, hate to start out on a dud, but I am not sure what this is-- looks like a tulip, but not this late, right? Maybe a type of daylily?
2) Some lovely roses, of course.
3) Purple pansies, very sweet.
4) Spirea-- a showy form.
5) I think this is Senecio greyi in flower. Nice!
6) One you are not likely to know from 'bama-- too hot there for this lovely yellow corydalis.
7)Foxgloves, (digitalis) with more roses behind.
8) Uhhh-- some small minty thing in bloom, maybe...
9) Wow, nice white cup and saucer, aka campanula, bellflower...
10)...and a nice pink form of the campanula.
11) Lychnis coronaria, aka rose campion. I would love to hear all the different names the English have for these!
12) hmmm, maybe a mock orange? I bet this smelled good!
13) More roses!
14)...and yet more roses.
15) And another foxglove, white.
16) I'm stumped. Proving you can't know it all, thank goodness.
17) A begonia.
18) A kind of geranium-- the species type, not the hothouse kind. This is one of my alltime fave plants. A common one is, believe me, "Johnson's blue," which this might be!
19) Some cool lookin osteospermum-- a type of african daisy.
20) Orange rose!
21) Another species geranium, pink.
22) Those same campanula, only a smaller variety of bellflower.
23) Begone, begonia.
24) Knifophia, aka Red Hot Poker, for obvious reasons. You can grow this down south.
25) and a rose!
Hey, that's only 25!! But what a great garden tour for me, I really had fun! Thanks Michelle!
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