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Help with two plant IDs please

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  • AdRockAdRock Posts: 241
    Fire said:
    Thank you @AdRock - I read that gentian sage is very tender and to treat like dahlias. How have you found it to be in your garden? I don't have any space to take it into protection in winter.


    Yes, I grow mine in pots and then overwinter in the greenhouse 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I take it that the label shoved down the side to the left doesn't tell you what the plant is?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    On the alpine looking thing? It's not mine, it's in a neighbour's front garden, but I could go back and have a gentle rootle and about and see if it's a label. It's an alpine-looking shallow trough affair.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Thanks @AdRock. I wonder if I could try it and treat it as I do my dahlias and fleece it in the winter....
  • AdRockAdRock Posts: 241
    You might be ok if you’re in London to fleece them and your dahlias are fine. I know they rot out if the ground where we are, the drainage isn’t good and we got to -8 one night so that’s why I keep in pots and keep them warm!
  • AdRockAdRock Posts: 241
    The colour is amazing though, it’s hard to find true blue flowering plants like the glazed pots you can buy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It is a great blue and one of the biggest salvia blooms I think I have encountered.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have a blue aconitum, the bees love it.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Really lovely.. I haven't tried them for some years. Might try again.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Fire said:
    On the alpine looking thing? It's not mine, it's in a neighbour's front garden, but I could go back and have a gentle rootle and about and see if it's a label. It's an alpine-looking shallow trough affair.
    Do you know the neighbours well enough to knock on their door and ask them what it is? 
    West Yorkshire
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