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Holiday pictures, plants from Menorca, can you help me ID them?

NewBeeswaxNewBeeswax Posts: 10
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Hi everyone,

I recently went on holiday to Menorca, and I was wondering if you could help me ID the plants I saw which were beautiful, in the hope that I might be able to get some of them?

Many thanks in advance :smile:


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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    1.  Learn Spanish and ask the locals.

    2.  Stick with English and seek out one who lives there.

    3.  Visit a local plant centre or Garden with labels.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited November 2022
    1st pic looks like a hibiscus
    Pic 5 looks like a variety of salvia farancia (I grow them from seed)
    7 could be a choisya

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Using Google Lens comes up with-

    Pic 2 - Lantana Ham & Eggs
    Pic 6 - Wild Petunia (ruellia caroliniensis)
    Last pic - pittosporum tobria

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Pic 3 is plumbago, I think.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Why so rude, @bede ?
    Surely one of the reasons the forum is here, is to answer people’s questions?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • izzy8izzy8 Posts: 147
    Last one could be Pittosporum 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think the first is hibiscus which will grow in the southern counties of the UK.
    Second Lantana. Third is Plumbago but not the hardy form, suitable for a conservatory here. Hardy Plumbago, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides is happy outside in a sunny spot.
    No idea re four some type of succulent. Salvia for five it looks like it would be an annual here in Notts . Six I have seen this under glass at RHS Halow Carr but just can't recall it's name. Seven could be Choisya. The last seems exotic makes me think Protea but not very likely! Oh dear not that helpful too cold in South Notts.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    I think the purple flower, under the salvia, might be an oleanda. We can grow shrubby ones in our sandy soil in Norfolk. 
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    I think the succulent is Crassula perforata. And just behind in the same pot perhaps a sedum. 

    Luxembourg
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    thevictorian said:
    I think the purple flower, under the salvia, might be an oleanda. We can grow shrubby ones in our sandy soil in Norfolk. 
    6. Agree with Pete.
    Ruellia.
    Maybe Ruellia simpex?


    https://www.google.com/search?q=ruellia+simplex&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiHkqj9o6z7AhUUGRoKHXEDBFUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ruellia+simplex&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgQIABBDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEUPgGWKMeYIEoaABwAHgAgAGRAYgBjQiSAQMyLjeYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=unlxY4fNDpSyaPGGkKgF&bih=595&biw=1280&client=firefox-b-d

    Nerium oleander flowers are very different...they have a frill in the centre
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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