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Old 28-08-2008, 11:26 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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Default Please help me to identify these plants.

In message , Sacha
writes
On 28/8/08 10:24, in article , "K"
wrote:

Hibiscus writes

Photos 5819 & 5820




Photos 5840 & 5837




Photos 5843 & 5842

Echium (sea holly relative) - don't know species/variety


Are you sure about Echium, Kay? I associate that with the very tall spires
of flowers we see in e.g. Tresco or sheltered gardens here. I thought it
was Eryngium.


Sea holly is a species of Eryngium (some people expand the term to the
whole genus), so I think we can assume that Echium was a thinko for
Eryngium.

Japanese anemone

And ?Tagetes


I'd like to see scale, habit and foliage, and even then might well not
be sure (it seems to be a "double", which doesn't help identification),
but Tagetes seems more plausible than Zinnia.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley