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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Roma on August 03, 2013, 08:35:14 PM
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I have shown this Silene in the Grow from Seed thread but noone offered a name there. I suggested Silene armeria but Jonna said no. Can anyone give me a name?
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I have the same problem. Got it as Silene californica, but unfortunately it is wrong.
A very quick grower. Annual perhaps.
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I have shown this Silene in the Grow from Seed thread but noone offered a name there. I suggested Silene armeria but Jonna said no. Can anyone give me a name?
Roma, it may be Silene caroliniana which is commonly sent to seed exchanges labelled as S californica. It can flower in the first year, although it is perennial. It does well outside here, very floriferous.
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Gerrit - perhaps Silene pendula ?
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I think Roma and have the same plant.
It is now to late here, tomorrow i'll study your suggestion Maggi. My first impression is a good one.
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That looks like the one that I got as Silene hookeri, which it wasn't. I don't know what it is.
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That looks like the one that I got as Silene hookeri, which it wasn't. I don't know what it is.
All the ones I've had as Silene hookeri were Lychnis ........ :'(
-not all bad though, since many of them have proved to be useful garden plants!
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Gerrit - perhaps Silene pendula ?
Roma, our plants seem to be a Silene pendula. Leaves spatulated (mine), 5 petals of course and each petal is divided. A white ring in the centre (not with Silene caroliniana). So there is a match with S.pendula as Maggi suggested.
I searched on the internet. Take a look here.
http://couchpotate.blog9.fc2.com/blog-entry-489.html (http://couchpotate.blog9.fc2.com/blog-entry-489.html)
Another picture from my garden. This gives a better view.
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Yes, Gerrit that seems to be it.
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Thanks to Maggi.
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My two plants of Silene californica are blooming now.
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This is not an easy plant to keep, and I don't understand its needs. If I collect seed, I'll let the forum know.
This is also not an easy flower to photograph. Look at how over-exposed the red is. Does anybody know how to keep this from happening? I have already reduced the exposure quite a bit.
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Here are some photos from show reports in the forum of Silene californica - various photographers, various lighting conditions, all indoors - may be of interest to compare:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1798.msg45649#msg45649 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1798.msg45649#msg45649)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3562.msg93877#msg93877 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3562.msg93877#msg93877)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5646.msg157050#msg157050 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5646.msg157050#msg157050)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10483.msg276956#msg276956 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10483.msg276956#msg276956)
Forumists and SRGC officers Carol and David Shaw grow and show this plant - perhaps they can share their experiences of growing it in Morayshire in NE Scotland?
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More a case of 'did' Maggi rather than 'do'! I don't remember the details of how we grew it but I don't think that we anything extra special. Coming from a certain nurseryman in Kirriemuir I accept that it was correctly named and we kept it going in the alpine house plung for quite a few years. I don't think that they are terribly long lived anyway, are they.
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At least you had a decent show plant for a few years, David!
I do agree that some Silenes do seem rather short lived - especially the less ordinary ones, eh?!!
I wonder how old those giant Silene hookeri ingramii etc. of ' The Glenrothes Greenfinger ' might be?
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I do agree that some Silenes do seem rather short lived - especially the less ordinary ones, eh?!!
I wonder how old those giant Silene hookeri ingramii etc. of Cyril ' The Glenrothes Greenfinger ' might be?
Just had a look at Cyril's "Growing for Showing" article from the Journal 2004 : available here (http://files.srgc.net/journals/GrowingforShow_CyrilLafong.pdf) - where he mentions a Silene hookeri subsp. bolanderi that he shows that was grown from seed in 1994. So he can achieve at least ten years....... 8)
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Didn't the Bainbridges show Silene californica at Aberdeen 2 or 3 years ago?
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That I cannot remember, Roma.
Robin Pickering from Goole seems to show it regularly south of the border.