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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on August 15, 2012, 11:56:11 AM
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Hi can anyone help me with this plant's name. I think it is a Linaria, it has the spurs. It has been flowering for many weeks but unfortunately I only took it's picture the other day. Its about 2ft 6 in tall, many branched and is setting copious seed which I intend to send to the seed exchange if I get a name for it.
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I've got that too and it self seeds all over the place. Bit of a thug really.
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It is linaria purpurea
there is a pink , blue and a white form
Roland
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I've got a self seeded purple form.
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Thank you Roland,
Don't know if it is a thug 'cos I don't know where it arrived from but it's very pretty and long lasting and it won't seed about too much because I'm going to save the seed for the seed exchanges.
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Who says there is no such thing as coincidence? (Apart from Sherlock Holmes ans Hercule Poirot?)
In today's Bulb Log, which Ian is just about to load online, there is a purple form of the Linaria - sppoky, spooky or what? ;)
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I get some plants from the white form in October
so normally next year seeds for the ones interested
Roland
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That's a lovely looking plant. Presumably as a native of Italy it likes a warm sunny location?
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Take a look at Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went'. It's a lovely thing and I TRY to keep it going in the garden. It has never acted the thug (yet...).
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I do have this linaria,Canon J. Went, and also the purple and white forms.
Love these plants and have them in my garden for more than 20 years.
They do selfseed a lot but are easily removed.only young seedlings can be replanted elsewhere.
I never want to be without them.