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Plant identification

Ruth150Ruth150 Posts: 41
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Please can anyone identify the tallest plant at the back of the border?


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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Phygelius  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Ruth150Ruth150 Posts: 41
    Thank you Fairygirl 🙂
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
     :) 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Careful, they can be a bit thuggish.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Do they grow alright for you, then, @punkdoc? I like  the look of them and don't mind thuggish for the right plant, but RHS say they are only H4 and we are often lower than that here. I don't want yet another thing that needs carting in and out of the GH every winter!
  • Ruth150Ruth150 Posts: 41
    Hi punkdoc, No worries it's in my sister's garden not mine! 😉
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    edited June 2021
    Some are hardier than others, I think, @Buttercupdays.  I grew Phygelius capensis 'African Queen' in Northumberland in a cold, windy garden, and wished I hadn't.  It burrowed under 4m of landscape fabric and bark, reappearing on the other side of the garden... and it survived minus 15 one winter!

    I think the yellow one might be Phygelius aequalis, which is much less of a thug.  Don't know how hardy it is though.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I had phygelius - a pink one.  It tried to take over the whole of my front garden.  I dug out as many roots as I could over the course of a couple of weeks, refreshed the borders and laid a new lawn.  It is still appearing here and there and has a stranglehold in the area around the gas meter box where all I can do is snap off the stems as they appear as I cannot get to any roots.  I hate it.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Ruth150Ruth150 Posts: 41
     :'(  I will pass all your comments on. Thank you. 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    edited June 2021
    Apologies to @Ruth150 for hi-jacking your thread.
    Thanks to@Liriodendron and @didyw for the info. Not something I will be rushing into this year for certain.
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