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Plant ID please?

mikeh6630mikeh6630 Posts: 2
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Hi all, Moved into our new home early last year and inherited an established garden, including several lovely blue bushy plants in the borders, which flower late June - August. 5 blue petals, fading to white at the centre. I would appreciate any feedback on what this flower is called. See pic.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Plumbago?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • mikeh6630mikeh6630 Posts: 2
    Many thanks, that's A1 B3! 
    Now I can tend it correctly, and sound intelligent when visitors ask its name. 
    MikeH
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited August 2020
    But is it pronounced plum-bah-go or plum-bay-go? Or I suppose it could even be plum-buh-go, stress on the plum.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    josusa47 said:
    But is it pronounced plum-bah-go or plum-bay-go? Or I suppose it could even be plum-buh-go, stress on the plum.
    Far easier to pronounce it Ceratostigma willmottianum  ;)

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Never heard of the first one. But maybe whoever said it got it wrong😉
    so long as you don't say  hy draayn ja,😖 it's ok by me
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    But it is pronounced hy drain ja 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Nooooo!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    How then?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    B3 said:
    Never heard of the first one. But maybe whoever said it got it wrong😉
    so long as you don't say  hy draayn ja,😖 it's ok by me
    That puts me in the dipsy category then😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Definitely high-drain-ja here or, if you prefer hor-ton-sia in French.

    Plumbago like lumbago of course but I do prefer ceratostigma etc.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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