This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Can anyone please help with naming this plant?
Kevan Enticott
Posts: 7
in Plants
Saw it planted with foxgloves and looked amazing, any help really appreciated!
0
Posts
Perennial wallflower?
erysimum bowles' mauve
Erysimum Bowles Mauve. And what a fabulous specimen it is.
it looks like hesperis matronalis, sweet rocket. The leaves looks wrong for Erysimum.
I might well be wrong.
Is it scented Kevan?
Could be Hostafan. The leaves don't look like erysimum to me either, though it's that family. I've never had a H. matronalis quite as floriferous as that.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I vote hesperis matronalis.
A close up of foliage and flowers would help (I keep failing with my idents!).
I've enlarged the photo - it's definitely Hesperis matronalis - foliage, flowers and immature seed pods are identical to mine except mine is the white form.
Mine is on a shady north facing bank. If the purple one gets plenty of sunlight that will explain why it's doing so well. This appears to be a very good year for Sweet Rocket 
Last edited: 22 June 2016 19:31:45
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Delightful Dove. I could do with some of that here
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...