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Help identify lovely flowers
Rivendell77
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Hello all,
I'm brand new to gardening in Scotland - and to make it even more difficult, I can only have containers and raised beds, in a windy, east faced, chipped garden.
I grew up with a huge garden, and 9 different walnut trees, but that was in a complete different climate zone, so I learn everything anew here.
I saw some flowers thriving at castle gardens here and would like to know, what they are so I can plant them :-) Anything I saw growing here in Scotland should grow in my wee garden as well? ;-)
Is the cream-pink one a japanese anemone?
The red one looks like an echinacea, but I never ever saw them having a second flower growing out of the bigger one underneath.
Help anyone? :-)
Thanks a lot and have a great Halloween!!!
Cheers, Heike
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1. Japanese Anemone.
2 Looks like Echinops.
3. Monarda.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=monarda+red&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW-9OB1pvXAhWCfRoKHXQhAa4Q_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=759
4. Buddleja.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=yellow+buddleia+uk&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq39GS1ZvXAhWLVhoKHXs9CAMQ_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=759
Last edited: 31 October 2017 20:12:56
Hi Rivendell,
Yes, the first picture is of a Japanese Anemone, the second is Echinops, the third I'm still working on and the fourth is Buddlea (never sure how to spell it) globosa. Have you got any more pictures of the red one?
Silver surfer your message has just come up. I thought the red one might be Mondarda but the centre just doesn't look right (the cone). Certainly the ragged petals are spot on though and the flowers under flowers. But the cone?
jekylandhide.
See this one..
https://d13z1xw8270sfc.cloudfront.net/origin/368909/1496479801403_monardabeehappy1.jpg
http://www.gardensonline.com.au/Uploads/Plant/1461/Monarda-Gardenview-Scarlet.jpg
Oh thank you so much!!! I have a photo of an echinops in full bloom but would have never expected that lovely spiky one to be the same. I'm happy :-)
Unfortunately, I don't have a better pic of the Monarda, but I pretty much think you are right.
Thanks for the quick replies.
Cheers, Heike