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Mystery shrub
Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. |
Mystery shrub
Leptospermum scoparium - Burgundy Queen.
-- Baal I smile and go off waving (Amiably) - for that's my way wrote in message ups.com... Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Mystery shrub
On 29/4/07 13:31, in article
, " wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. Could it be Leptospermum scoparium 'Burgundy Queen'. If so, it's one of the Myrtle family. It's beautiful, whatever it is! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Garden Banter does not have permission to use my posts. Join uk.rec.gardening instead. |
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wrote in message ups.com... Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. I reckon it's a camellia |
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On 29 Apr, 14:44, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. I reckon it's a camellia I reckon Sacha's right ... it apparently flowers all year .. I'd guessed at Hebe for the leaves ... http://www.smgrowers.com/info/images.asp?strLetter=L |
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On 29 Apr, 14:22, Sacha wrote:
On 29/4/07 13:31, in article om, " wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. Could it be Leptospermum scoparium 'Burgundy Queen'. If so, it's one of the Myrtle family. It's beautiful, whatever it is! -- Thanks ! |
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On 29/4/07 15:12, in article ,
"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 05:31:09 -0700, wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Garden Banter does not have permission to use my posts. Join uk.rec.gardening instead. |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 29/4/07 15:12, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 05:31:09 -0700, wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x -- Sacha (remove weeds from address) Garden Banter does not have permission to use my posts. Join uk.rec.gardening instead. That is http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk which Hubbard is advertising. Well worth a look and full of lots of interesting information from lots of sights. Go and take a peek over the fence. Mike -- .................................................. .............. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk |
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:04 +0100, Sacha
wrote: On 29/4/07 15:12, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 05:31:09 -0700, wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x I was comparing the flower size with the leaf size. The leaves on mine are about an inch long, the flowers are about 2.5 inches across. Which plant is it? Steve |
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In message . com,
writes Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. Are the petals fused or separate? They're looking fused to me, but that could be the photograph, not reality. (The rose family doesn't have fused petals.) -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Mystery shrub
On 29/4/07 16:30, in article ,
"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:04 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 29/4/07 15:12, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 05:31:09 -0700, wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x I was comparing the flower size with the leaf size. The leaves on mine are about an inch long, the flowers are about 2.5 inches across. Which plant is it? Steve It looks to me and others like Leptospermum scoparium 'Burgundy Queen'. If you do a Google image search on that, you'll get some idea of what that looks like. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Garden Banter does not have permission to use my posts. Join uk.rec.gardening instead. |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 29/4/07 16:30, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:04 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 29/4/07 15:12, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 05:31:09 -0700, wrote: Dear URGlers, I've come across this pretty shrub in a garden I'm helping with :- http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9...ryshrubdj7.jpg Any ideas ? 5 petals, reddish foliage, so I'm thinking rose family ? thanks.. Mike. There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x I was comparing the flower size with the leaf size. The leaves on mine are about an inch long, the flowers are about 2.5 inches across. Which plant is it? Steve It looks to me and others like Leptospermum scoparium 'Burgundy Queen'. If you do a Google image search on that, you'll get some idea of what that looks like. -- Sacha (remove weeds from address) Garden Banter does not have permission to use my posts. Join uk.rec.gardening instead. That is http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk which Hubbard is advertising. Well worth a look and full of lots of interesting information from lots of sights. Go and take a peek over the fence. Mike -- .................................................. .............. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk |
Mystery shrub
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:37:40 +0100, Sacha
wrote: On 29/4/07 16:30, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x I was comparing the flower size with the leaf size. The leaves on mine are about an inch long, the flowers are about 2.5 inches across. Which plant is it? Steve It looks to me and others like Leptospermum scoparium 'Burgundy Queen'. If you do a Google image search on that, you'll get some idea of what that looks like. Yes, you're right, it looks like my plant is a Leptospermum scoparium. I bought it as a red Camellia for my wife about ten years ago because she always wanted something to brighten up the garden early. How will I break the news? Steve |
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In message , Steve
Wolstenholme writes On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:37:40 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 29/4/07 16:30, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: There is one in my garden that has just finished flowering. I have always thought it to be a variety of Camellia. Steve If it IS Leptospermum, Steve, the flowers are a lot smaller than a Camellia. Here's a link to a pic of another but different one: http://tinyurl.com/ywgp2x I was comparing the flower size with the leaf size. The leaves on mine are about an inch long, the flowers are about 2.5 inches across. Which plant is it? Steve It looks to me and others like Leptospermum scoparium 'Burgundy Queen'. If you do a Google image search on that, you'll get some idea of what that looks like. Yes, you're right, it looks like my plant is a Leptospermum scoparium. I bought it as a red Camellia for my wife about ten years ago because she always wanted something to brighten up the garden early. How will I break the news? Steve I've checked my files and within the limits of the photograph I'd agree with the identification as Leptospermum. In particular the flower looks like one I have photographed as L. scoparium 'Ron Glory' (perhaps an error for 'Crimson Glory'). However if your flowers are about 2.5 inches across it's not any Leptospermum I've ever seen. (Leptospermum flowers are about 1.5-2 cm acrooss. 2.5 inches would fit a Camellia.) Leptospermum and Camellia don't look alike, but I'm struggling for a form of words for an easy single character distinction. Single Camellia have a cylindrical ring of stamens, often fused at the base. (18th century botanists tended to lump them, and more so some of their relatives like Stewartia, Gordonia and Malachodendron, with mallows because of this character.) But single Leptospermums have a similar feature (but with fewer stamens). Camellias have large glossy leaves, comparable in size with the flowers. Leptospermums have small leaves, even smaller than the relatively small flowers. If your plant has 2.5 inch flowers and 1 inch leaves it may be neither a Camellia nor a Leptospermum. It may be premature to break the news (but if it does the desired job does its identity matter). When does your plant flower? Nothing with red flowers that flowers early other than Camellia and Rhododendron comes to mind (unless you could Hamamelis). -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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