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Purple and pink toadflax?

Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
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I have 3 or 4 pink flowers in the toadflax - which is great, but it's never thrown a pink one before, is it usual? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It happens from time to time.  There is also a 'selected' pink form called Linaria 'Canon Went',  

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





  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Yes I've seen that, very pretty.. I hope I get more pink flowers, it'd look great with the purple! 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I get the occasional pink-flowered self-sown one as well. It's obviously in their genetic makeup somewhere.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Odd isn't it? First time in ten years it's done this - I split & moved it a couple of years ago, and it seems happier than ever in incredibly dry, shallow soil, melding with the ice plant which had the same move.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I get pink and purple seed around, they charge a fortune for "Canon Went" as if it is summat special.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    fidgetbones said:
    I get pink and purple seed around, they charge a fortune for "Canon Went" as if it is summat special.
    I'm constantly amazed at the price of buddleias! 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I think Canon Went is very pretty, and Peachy too.

    They charge a fortune for "Canon Went".
     
    I'm constantly amazed at the price of buddleias! 

    In my view all the plants are essentially free.
    What you are paying for is the time, overheads and labour to raise them, the infrastructure to let you know they are stocked and for your to buy them, and the transport to get them to you.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I agree, but Buddleia doesn't really need much effort or mollycoddling, l could have made about £500 from my last garden. 😄
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