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Can you help identify this plant?

DubloonDubloon Posts: 45
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My Dad has this plant in his garden. It is festooned with beautiful, small, white flowers in summer.

We have no idea what it is and can't get a cutting to root.

I love this plant and would like to buy it - can you help tell us what it is?

Many thanks friends,

Dubloon

Last edited: 04 January 2018 13:57:49

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  • DubloonDubloon Posts: 45

    Photos here.....apologies imageimage

  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

    May be wrong, but could be Hebe cockayniana or similar .

  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

    Just out of interest , I googled the above but could find no match .

    It's a name I picked up years ago from a now deceased friend ; maybe another forum member will know of any name changes ?

    (That's if I got it right )!image

    PS should be H.cockayiana!

    Last edited: 04 January 2018 15:10:26

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Paul ... is this the one?http://www.hebesoc.org/hebes/hebes_c/hebe_cockayniana/hebe_cockayniana.htm 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

    Dove

    Looks like the one I searched for on Google ; alas to no avail !image

    Well done for finding it ; do you think it's the right ID ??

    Last edited: 04 January 2018 15:41:34

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    It seems a pretty good match to me Paul although it says that it rarely flowers 'in captivity' image

    I seem to remember Hostafan identifying a hebe very like this one a while back but I can't remember what it was called and I can't find the thread ... and Hosta's on holiday in the sun at the moment so may not be reading this ... 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

    Thanks Dove image

    Seems like Dubloons Dad does well to get it to flower !

    Last edited: 04 January 2018 15:46:33

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    The pics look as if it could be Alpine Mint..


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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    Definitely a hebe. probably not H. cookiana (named after captain cook)

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Looks like Prostanthera cuneata alpine mint bush. Leaves have a very distinctive smell. Small white flowers. 

    Last edited: 04 January 2018 16:43:51

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