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Plant ID please

BettyWalesBettyWales Posts: 71
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On a recent staycation came across 2 plants that caught my eye, particularly for their colour and flowering at this time of the year but not known to me (although the blue one looks a bit like Periwinkle?) 
So thought sure someone on the forum will recognise them so I can look out for them at local garden centres - any ideas please 😊

Deep purple flowering plant?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2022
    The second is Ceratostigma willmottianum aka Plumbago

    https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/ceratostigma-willmottianum/ 

    My brain has frozen about the first … it’ll come to me … eventually …

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





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    My brain froze too Dove and then remembered, it's heliotrope. I hate this aging thing. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    The first is Heliotrope, the flowers smell like cherry pie!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Definitely not age 😲 @Uff … I’ve always had a problem with putting names to faces … that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it 😇 

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





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Tis with me Dove  :|
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Nah!  Can’t be @Uff … we’re only 27 😉 

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





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Nice one  :)
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • BettyWalesBettyWales Posts: 71
    edited September 2022
    Well…many thanks to you two very knowledgeable 27 year olds 👍🤣 and Plantminded of the Wirral. I’m liking the idea of cherry pie scented flowers! I’ll have a read up on both now I know what they’re called thanks again 😊
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Enjoy 😊 

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





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