Many of the plants in this selection are relatively early flowering,
but this evergreen, mat-forming perennial, flowers in summer and
continues well into autumn. Above the dark green leaves crowded spikes
of pink flowers open on short stems, darkening as they mature, and the
whole plant spreads tightly across rocks and down over retaining walls.
As the flowers darken, the foliage also darkens to rich brown. 25cm
(10in).
There isn't a 'dropmore' plant. Canadian plant breeder Franker L Skinner (b.1882) developed a wide variety of introductions at his nursery in Dropmore, Manitoba, for which some are named, including Ulmus pumila 'Dropmore', Lonicera 'Dropmore Scarlet' and Pyrus 'Dropmore'.
@Fire is correct - there is no plant called 'Dropmore'. That's merely a variety, and, like many varieties, is named after the person who develops or discovers it, or in this case, the place it was developed. For example, 'fortunei' is a common variety of many plants, named after Robert Fortune, the famous plant hunter and botanist. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fortune
As she indicates - this is why having the botanical name is important when offering advice on many aspects of plant care too. Lots of plants have the same common, or variety, name, but are vastly different in all sorts of ways
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If the name is in the title there is a plant called that, which I used for short: Anchusa azurea "Dropmore". But I have not seen the pink version to be more sure.
There are 6 petals that are too thin in Persicaria. The mystery flower has 5 rounded petals. A plant with 5 petals never sprouts a flower with 6 petals.
"If the name is in the title there is a plant called that, which I used for short: Anchusa azurea "Dropmore"."
I'm afraid the plant name matters. Telling someone they might have a 'Dropmore' is not only meaningless, but in this case - completely wrong. Shortening it to the name of a variety is misleading - at best
If you thought it was an Anchusa azurea that the OP has, that's what you should have suggested
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Many of the plants in this selection are relatively early flowering, but this evergreen, mat-forming perennial, flowers in summer and continues well into autumn. Above the dark green leaves crowded spikes of pink flowers open on short stems, darkening as they mature, and the whole plant spreads tightly across rocks and down over retaining walls. As the flowers darken, the foliage also darkens to rich brown. 25cm (10in).
Percicaria has 6 petals. And those petals are too thin.
The flower in this post clearly has 5 petals which are clearly all rounded. See the clip.
My blue dropmore has 5 rounded petal spikes that are "heavy" like that. I know that there is a pink version, but I have not seen the pink version.
Just like my Anchusa azurea Dropmore. And I have heard it has a pink bersion, but I have not seen it.
https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/anchusa-azurea-dropmore/classid.260/
> Persicaria don't have petals.
What are you talking about a flower without petals? Silver surfer's picture shows 6 clear thin petals.
Ad the mystery flower clearly has 5 rounded petals.
@Fire is correct - there is no plant called 'Dropmore'. That's merely a variety, and, like many varieties, is named after the person who develops or discovers it, or in this case, the place it was developed.
For example, 'fortunei' is a common variety of many plants, named after Robert Fortune, the famous plant hunter and botanist.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fortune
As she indicates - this is why having the botanical name is important when offering advice on many aspects of plant care too. Lots of plants have the same common, or variety, name, but are vastly different in all sorts of ways
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If the name is in the title there is a plant called that, which I used for short: Anchusa azurea "Dropmore". But I have not seen the pink version to be more sure.
https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/anchusa-azurea-dropmore/classid.260/
There are 6 petals that are too thin in Persicaria.
The mystery flower has 5 rounded petals.
A plant with 5 petals never sprouts a flower with 6 petals.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
"If the name is in the title there is a plant called that, which I used for short: Anchusa azurea "Dropmore"."
I'm afraid the plant name matters. Telling someone they might have a 'Dropmore' is not only meaningless, but in this case - completely wrong. Shortening it to the name of a variety is misleading - at best
If you thought it was an Anchusa azurea that the OP has, that's what you should have suggested
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...