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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: shelagh on August 16, 2009, 09:53:14 PM
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Brian and I spent last week with our daughter and family in the south of France, Herault and l'Aude. On the only cool day we visited this lovely Botanic Garden on the outskirts of Limoux (famous for an excellent sparkling white wine, well we had to try it).
The garden was terrific but rather short of visitors apparently the French do not visit gardens in large numbers. We pottered around happily for over 2 hours. One of the joys was the diversity of flowers and veg. The garden exists on entry charges and selling it's produce.
Most plants were well labelled but I have a few unknowns, so if anyone could help I should be grateful.
DSCF4628 Caesalpinia gilliesi
DSCF4627 Caesalpinia gilliesi
DSCF4630 Albizia julibrissin Rosea
DSCF4633 Euphorbia Diamond Frost
DSCF4636 Catalpa in fruit
DSCF4638 Thuja fruit
DSCF4639 Commelina coelestis
DSCF4641 Echinacea purpurea Fragrant Angel
DSCF4642 Hibiscus Blue Bird
DSCF4643 Jacobinia suberecta
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My goodness, you Forumists do get around, don't you?
Super looking garden, Shelagh. Good of you to try the local wine, eh? ::)
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Thanks for your photos Shelagh, it's lovely to see the more exotic plants that love the heat!
Albizia julibrissin Rosea is wonderfully feathery!
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Looks like a site that grows the plants that grow OK here. Hibiscus Blue Bird has been flowering for months now. It has a Parson's Pink rose growing through it so the combination is quite lovely.
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Dear Shelagh,
Thankyou very much for the photographs: I love being introduced to new plants to grow.
Mr Bean reckons the Caesalpinia is just about hardy in the south - and I've already ordered the seeds!
(I can't think why ;) )
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Looks like an interesting garden !
Thanks for introducing it Shelagh !!
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Thanks for the comments. Here comes the next instalment, perhaps not quite so exotic but please keep coming as there will be more.
DSCF4647 Lagostroemia indica
DSCF4646 Lagostroemia indica
DSCF4649 Unknown = Teucrium
DSCF4652 Senecio vira-vira
DSCF4656 Ipmoea
DSCF4657 Peppers
DSCF4658 Peppers
DSCF4659 Unknown
DSCF4660 Aubergine
DSCF4661 Cucumber
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One or two lovely plants in this posting. A gorgeous orange bulb which i think had self sown there was only one and it was unlabelled. Also a golden yellow/orange herbaceous plant which spread loosely. The wonderful climber Dregea sinensis which had a lovely scent was new to us but covered an arbour beautifully.
DSCF4663 Jaberosa integrifolia
DSCF4665 Cyclamen hederifolium persicum
DSCF4668 Heliotrope arborescens alba
DSCF4669 Unkinown dianthus
DSCF4671 Dregea sinensis
DSCF4673 Sysirinchium striatum 'Aount Mary' = Mount Mary? Aunt Mary?
DSCF4678 Unknown
DSCF4684 Pond
DSCF4733 Lobelia syphilitica Alba
DSCF4691 Unknown = Belamcanda chinensis
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Hi Shelagh, looks like a nice area, thanks for posting the pics.
Unknown 4649 looks like a Teucrium.
Your Cyclamen hederifoliums look more like Cyclamen persicum
Unknown 4691 is Belamcanda chinensis (now called Iris domestica). It comes in yellow or orange, very easy from seed, will flower in the first year from seed, but a touch tender. Very characteristic, the way the petals curl round when they go over. Here's mine, not such a striking colour as the orange.
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Thanks Diane, the Belamcanda was a wonderful colour, trouble is I would think most of these plants are a little bit tender.
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Shelagh if DSCF4659 Unknown had a scented leaf I think it is one of the Agastache, I have a very similar looking one here.
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looks like a lovely place indeed to potter about! lots of lovely and exotic looking things!
cohan
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Diane why is Belamcanda chinensis now Iris domestica? Who decides these changes?
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Penultimate posting from Limoux. Some more unknowns, thanks for help already suggested. I have doubled up on a couple of unknowns to try and get a different/better angle. Glad you are enjoying the sunshine, my daughter says it has been 38C this week :o :o :o
DSCF4685 Unknown
DSCF4687 Unknown 2
DSCF4692 Pomegranite
DSCF4695 Myrtle
DSCF4696 Lovely grass
DSCF4699 Tulbaghia violaceae
DSCF4701 passion flower
DSCF4703 Euphorbia
DSCF4705 Unknown
DSCF4708 Unknown 2
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OK the last picture should have been the first of this posting so you have 2 different versions of same plant about 5ft high but beautiful with delicate hanging flowers.
DSCF4709 Unknown
DSCF4711 French stumpery
DSCF4712 Poliomintha longiflora
DSCF4718 Thymus capitatus
DSCF4720 Salvia canariensis 'Candidissima'
DSCF4720 Salvia canariensis 'Candidissima'
DSCF4724 Caparis spinosa
DSCF4726 Nierenbergia
DSCF4727 Art
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More gorgeous flowers and plants, I'm really enjoying your album of photos Shelagh :)
The Passion Flower and Euphorbia are glorious and I too like the Lovely Grass (wonder what its called?)
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Diane why is Belamcanda chinensis now Iris domestica? Who decides these changes?
In this case, it's Goldblatt and Mabberley, who have changed the name, based on DNA evidence.
Belamcanda chinensis (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=334601&repSynonym_id=322678&name_id=326839&status=false)
and the relevant paper by Goldblatt and Mabberley is here:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3393403?cookieSet=1
Abstract from the paper
The eastern Asian genus Belamcanda (Iridaceae: Irideae), with its sole species, B. chinensis, the leopard or blackberry lily, has long been understood to be most closely related to Iris dichotoma (syn. Pardanthopsis dichotoma), but has nevertheless been maintained as a separate genus because of its distinctive floral, fruit, and seed morphology. Molecular DNA sequence evidence shows B. chinensis and its sister species, I. dichotoma, to be nested within the large Northern Hemisphere genus Iris (ca. 280 spp.). Not only does consistent taxonomic treatment of genera of the Iridaceae require that Belamcanda be transferred to Iris, but we argue that taxonomy should follow the principle of monophyly, which requires that Belamcanda and any other genus nested in Iris be treated as members of that genus. A new combination, I. domestica (basionym Epidendrum domesticum), is made for B. chinensis (based on Ixia chinensis), because the name Iris chinensis is preoccupied. The names Belamcanda pampaninii Léveillé and B. chinensis var. taiwanensis S. S. Ying are here included in the synonymy of I. domestica.
It is impossible to keep up with current changes, but this one has been around since 2005. The current version of The Plantfinder has not yet taken this one on board
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Lovely visit!
4678 looks like Cosmos sulphureus.
4685, 4687 appear to be buttonbush, Cephalanthus, perhaps Cepahalanthus occidentalis.
4703 is Euphorbia marginata.
The unknown grass in 4696 looks like a Pennisetum.
4708, 4709 looks like a milkweed, Asclepias.
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Thanks Lori, I think I shall have to take you with me next time.
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Sorry folks, got carried away again. This patch is at least 12 ft long.
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Thanks, Shelagh!
Yes, that stretch of the Lippia = Phyla nodiflora is heading for world domination, isn't it? Nice though!
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Thanks Diane for that extract on Iris domestica.