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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: newstart on July 02, 2009, 05:28:58 PM

Title: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: newstart on July 02, 2009, 05:28:58 PM: I am looking to identify some plants i have had in garden a while and some I have recently got from my Father. Can anyone help with following species and cultivars? If species is correct it would at least give me a start. thanks folks!
Title: Re: Can anyone Identify The Following Plants and their cultivars??
Post by: Lori S. on July 03, 2009, 04:23:37 AM: I can't/won't comment on cultivars, but here are some thoughts to get you started...
1) Lavandula angustifolia
2) Dianthus deltoides
3) Campanula spp., possibly C. cochleariifolia ?
4) Cerastium tomentosum
5) Geranium spp.
6) Dianthus caryophyllus
Title: Re: Can anyone Identify The Following Plants and their cultivars??
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 03, 2009, 04:41:30 AM: I'd agree with Lor's id on the genera; but I think the first dianthus is most likely an "Allwoodii" hybrid.
The Geranium looks like G. endressii maybe "Wargrave's Pink".
Not sure about that campanula.
cheers
fermi
Title: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: newstart on July 06, 2009, 05:04:21 PM: A few more plants in my garden unidentified??
Title: A few more plant identitiy questions?-Thanks
Post by: newstart on July 06, 2009, 05:16:52 PM: See following pictures -

Which Arabis is this I only have a very small picture unfortunatley in my photo editor. The following picture is the same Arabis with July foliage. Which Sedum is this also?

Many Thanks!
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: Paul T on July 07, 2009, 02:13:19 AM: David,

I can help with some in today's posting I think. Others, please correct me if I am wrong. I'm only offering genus at this point.....

69 - Acaena
70 - Scabiosa
72 - Hebe
72/73 - Hypericum, or possibly a Hibbertia?

That's some for starters anyway.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on July 07, 2009, 09:03:10 AM: 72/73 Hypericum olympicum I guess
Title: Re: A few more plant identitiy questions?-Thanks
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 07, 2009, 09:24:24 AM: Quote from: newstart on July 06, 2009, 05:16:52 PM
Which Sedum is this also?

76: possibly Sedum spathulifolium 'Capo Blanco'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: Sinchets on July 07, 2009, 01:19:55 PM: Number 70 is a Pterocephalus, probably P.perennis.
Title: Re: A few more plant identitiy questions?-Thanks
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on July 07, 2009, 06:02:54 PM: Quote from: fermides on July 07, 2009, 09:24:24 AM
Sedum spathulifolium 'Capo Blanco'

The correct name is "Cape Blanco", after a cape on the coast of Oregon where the original plant was found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Blanco_(Oregon)

Google Maps Terrain view of Cape Blanco (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.836356,-124.564791&spn=0.013815,0.043902&t=p&z=15)

The late Marvin Black of Seattle first pointed out in the early 1980's that this sedum's name was consistently garbled in the trade, coming out as Capa Blanca, Casablanca, and other variations. The nurseryman who found it had ads in the earliest volumes of the AGS Bulletin, and if your set includes the advertising pages in the back, a careful search will reveal mention of Sedum 'Cape Blanco' among them. If anyone is desperate for bibliographic details, send me a private message and I'll go look the ad up and post the details as an addendum to this message.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: Lori S. on July 07, 2009, 06:15:36 PM: Very interesting about the cultivar name!
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: Lvandelft on July 08, 2009, 07:00:11 AM: We always have grown this purple leaved Sedum as S. spathulifolium Purpureum.
S. Cape Blanco is (here) never purplish and the shorter lived plant because flowering too rich.
We grew thousands of both forms for many years at a time that no other nursery in Holland grew them so we could make good prices.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: newstart on July 10, 2009, 08:23:24 PM: Is there any offers on the Arabis and which of the two different hypericums is olympican? Any guess on Hebe type and what are the blue sedums? Anyone?
Title: Re: Can anyone identify these with a few attempts on cultivars welcome?
Post by: newstart on July 23, 2009, 05:20:52 PM: There is a higher chance the 'cape blanco' looking one is Sedum spathulifolium 'purpureum' as cape blanco stays blue. Thanks to the chap in Holand I checked what he said on net photos. Most of us could well be wrong! Not to worry.