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Hi All,
I grow this lovely pink shrub/perennial in the garden which flowers endlessly and is a really nice tall compact plant. I have only ever seen a picture of it once in gardening magazine and foolishly didn't take note of what it was called! the bees seem to like it and it is just about the simplist thing ever to take cuttings from which never fail. For such a great plant I'll be blowed if I can find an ID for it anywhere! I've looked in my 'many' reference books and searched just about every combination I can on Goggle but still don't know what it is!!!!
Please please please ID it for me someone??????...... I'm slowly becoming a broken man from all these late nights searching the internet for 'pink flowering plants!!!'.....
Cheers
Higgy
A very pretty plant, Higgy. Could it be a variety of phlox?
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Hi Higgy,
It looks like phlox to me, but I am no expert.
Cheers, Linda.
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Hi Linda and Claire,
No it's not a phlox I'm afraid!
If it helps at all the stems are square and hollow! The leaves as you can see are serrated/toothed slightly. As I stated before you can literally snap a piece off and stick it in compost and it will root within days! I took some cuttings at the start of summer and they are already substantial flowering plants!
Keep guessing everyone you never know one of you may have it in an old reference book?...
How about
Diascia vigilis,
(Scrophulariaceae)
Common name ,---- Twinspur.
Looks a good match to me ,
I like plants that flower for ages, could it be - nemesia?? just a thought
Lot to learn
Evening Sugar & Gaynorsl,
Now you really have put the cat among the pigeons as when I looked up Nemasia I thought 'yes that's definitely it'......
Then I looked up Diascia Vigilis and thought 'yes that's definitely it!!!!!'......
Both look like potential matches! What does everyone else think??
I think Diascia Vigilis is right as its a perennial
where as Nemesia is an annual, also they are much shorter,
Nemesia leaves are wrong, they are serrated & ragged on the edges.
I doubt it is nemesia. I have this in tubs and troughs in the front garden and have no need to take cuttings. It self seeds - just about everywhere! It even grows in miniscule cracks between the tarmac path and the brick wall of the house where there is no obvious soil. It is also very noticeably fragrant. I haven't bought any for a couple of years - it just appears on its own.
I think, as sugar has said, Diascia, higgy. I checked out the "Vigilis" variety and it is frost hardy down to -5 degrees.
I think Diascia as well, the other thing that likes them are Humming Bird Hawk moth.
Caroline in Jersey
Cin J