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UncleUncle Posts: 9
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 Hi.I took this as a cutting last year, can anyone name it please. I love taking cuttings, but I think my memory is going!!!!!!

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  • MarygoldMarygold Posts: 332

    Could it be a penstemon?image

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    i think it's a Penstemon as well. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,141

    What a smashing plant that cutting has turned into image


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





  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Those stems are too woody for a pemstemon. It has a look of a type of willow for me, but more than happy to be proved wrong mind you.

  • Is it a type of Buddlia?

    dont think its penstemon.

  • UncleUncle Posts: 9

    I am quite familiar with Penstemon, its not a penstemon. It has spent its time in a unheated greenhouse,

  • pansy2pansy2 Posts: 28

    I think it is a Buddleia too.   Are the stems woody?  if yes then probably a Buddleia.  If soft then a Penstemon.

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,036

    Doesn't look woody to me. I'd agree with penstemon - except that Uncle says it isn't! Oh dear, lots of plants have leaves like that, such as Michaelmas daisies and Golden Rod. I think the dark leaves could because they are old.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • UncleUncle Posts: 9

    Well thanks everyone, I think that I will have to go with the majority and assume that it is a Penstemon............Time will tell, Thanks anyway. I am new to this site and I think perhaps I shall make use of it.

  • UncleUncle Posts: 9

    Hooray........Just spotted one in a nursery....Its a Strobilanthe.

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