A fellow gardener from Ballinger has asked if I would try and find out
about a plant with the name of 'Butcher's Blue' or, she says, it might
be Blue Butcher.
She doesn't know what the rest of the name is, I gather she saw it in a
garden near Banbury, but she would love to buy a plant.
I've suggested Butcher's broom but she says it's definitely got BLUE in
the name.

Any suggestions?
I will get her to send a description if that helps.

Janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On 8/11/07 10:25, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

A fellow gardener from Ballinger has asked if I would try and find out
about a plant with the name of 'Butcher's Blue' or, she says, it might
be Blue Butcher.
She doesn't know what the rest of the name is, I gather she saw it in a
garden near Banbury, but she would love to buy a plant.
I've suggested Butcher's broom but she says it's definitely got BLUE in
the name.

Any suggestions?
I will get her to send a description if that helps.

Janet

Can't think of one offhand, though I'll consult the Oracle. ;-) She's not
thinking of Perovskia Blue Spire or Ruta graveolens Jackman's Blue, is she?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

In article , Sacha
writes

Can't think of one offhand, though I'll consult the Oracle. ;-) She's not
thinking of Perovskia Blue Spire or Ruta graveolens Jackman's Blue, is she?


No she's quite a clued up gardener, apparently she asked the owner of
the garden and she was told that the variety was Butcher's Blue. She's
wading through all plants with blue in the name at the moment via the
Plantfinder! She likes cottagey stuff so I am assuming it's a perennial
or a hardy annual.

Janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In reply to Janet Tweedy ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article , Sacha
writes

Can't think of one offhand, though I'll consult the Oracle. ;-) She's
not thinking of Perovskia Blue Spire or Ruta graveolens
Jackman's Blue, is she?


No she's quite a clued up gardener, apparently she asked the owner of
the garden and she was told that the variety was Butcher's Blue. She's
wading through all plants with blue in the name at the moment via the
Plantfinder! She likes cottagey stuff so I am assuming it's a
perennial or a hardy annual.

Butcher's blue is a colour, not a variety. Like cobalt blue, royal blue etc.
Or like buddleia "royal purple", for instance.

It is the colour of a butcher's apron, or used to be. It is a very dark
blue, probably not seen much nowadays as most butchers hide in dark places,
you only see the shop attendants!

I only know this because my old man used to be a butcher :-)

There is a picture of a proper apron here

http://www.broadstripebutchers.co.uk...r_s_Apron.html

It's nearly black, see?

HTH

In article ,
says...
In article , Sacha
writes

Can't think of one offhand, though I'll consult the Oracle. ;-) She's not
thinking of Perovskia Blue Spire or Ruta graveolens Jackman's Blue, is she?


No she's quite a clued up gardener, apparently she asked the owner of
the garden and she was told that the variety was Butcher's Blue. She's
wading through all plants with blue in the name at the moment via the
Plantfinder! She likes cottagey stuff so I am assuming it's a perennial
or a hardy annual.

Janet

Sorry Janet there are no entries for Butchers, and only 2 for Butcher and
both of those are Malus varieties. I would suggest it was a description
of the colour.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

In article ,
Charlie Pridham writes:
|
| Sorry Janet there are no entries for Butchers, and only 2 for Butcher and
| both of those are Malus varieties. I would suggest it was a description
| of the colour.

Bloody Butcher is a decorative maize. Blue Jade is another. I reply
merely to confuse.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 8/11/07 11:21, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes

Can't think of one offhand, though I'll consult the Oracle. ;-) She's not
thinking of Perovskia Blue Spire or Ruta graveolens Jackman's Blue, is she?


No she's quite a clued up gardener, apparently she asked the owner of
the garden and she was told that the variety was Butcher's Blue. She's
wading through all plants with blue in the name at the moment via the
Plantfinder! She likes cottagey stuff so I am assuming it's a perennial
or a hardy annual.

Janet

She isn't a teensy bit hard of hearing is he? Butcher's Blue actually being
Butcher's Broom?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

In article ,
says...

In article ,
Charlie Pridham writes:
|
| Sorry Janet there are no entries for Butchers, and only 2 for Butcher and
| both of those are Malus varieties. I would suggest it was a description
| of the colour.

Bloody Butcher is a decorative maize. Blue Jade is another. I reply
merely to confuse.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Presumably because no one sells the plants they do not appear in the
plant finder :~)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
On 8/11/07 10:25, in article , "Janet
Tweedy"
wrote:

A fellow gardener from Ballinger has asked if I would try and find out
about a plant with the name of 'Butcher's Blue' or, she says, it might
be Blue Butcher.
She doesn't know what the rest of the name is, I gather she saw it in a
garden near Banbury, but she would love to buy a plant.
I've suggested Butcher's broom but she says it's definitely got BLUE in
the name.

Any suggestions?
I will get her to send a description if that helps.

Can't think of one offhand, though I'll consult the Oracle. ;-) She's
not
thinking of Perovskia Blue Spire or Ruta graveolens Jackman's Blue, is
she?

Or Butchers Broom even?


--
Chris, Sugar Hill, Barbados
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

In article , Uncle Marvo
writes

Butcher's blue is a colour, not a variety. Like cobalt blue, royal blue etc.
Or like buddleia "royal purple", for instance.



http://www.broadstripebutchers.co.uk...ad_Stripe_Butc
her_s_Apron.html

It's nearly black, see?

HTH




Sort of reflex blue then?

Thanks for the mention of the colour, I'll pass it on!

janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Charlie
Pridham writes

Sorry Janet there are no entries for Butchers, and only 2 for Butcher and
both of those are Malus varieties. I would suggest it was a description
of the colour.


I know! How irritating is that! She is sure that's what the owner of the
garden said but of curse it might 'sound' like Butcher's Blue or Blue
Butcher I guess.

Still thank you for trying. I also looked which was why I wondered at
first about Butcher's broom
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

Bloody Butcher is a decorative maize. Blue Jade is another. I reply
merely to confuse.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Passed on thanks Nick.
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Sacha
writes


She isn't a teensy bit hard of hearing is he? Butcher's Blue actually being
Butcher's Broom?


Well she'd only in her late 30's! However that's what I thought at first
myself Sacha.

She's got a lovely old garden, about 2 acres and a few pigs and chicken.
Bees and doves so she likes olde worlde things. She appeared in Amateur
gardener last year seated on a huge wavy bench/seat that her husband
made for her. She'd really arty so when she's sees something she likes
she goes all out to get that one particular colour or plant She'd
never buy three on the way up the nursery aisle before getting to the
one she came for like several of us
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

"Janet Tweedy" schreef in bericht
...
A fellow gardener from Ballinger has asked if I would try and find out
about a plant with the name of 'Butcher's Blue' or, she says, it might be
Blue Butcher.
She doesn't know what the rest of the name is, I gather she saw it in a
garden near Banbury, but she would love to buy a plant.
I've suggested Butcher's broom but she says it's definitely got BLUE in
the name.

Any suggestions?
I will get her to send a description if that helps.

Janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk


Geranium Buxton's Blue perhaps?

Charlie Pridham writes
In article ,
says...

In article ,
Charlie Pridham writes:
|
| Sorry Janet there are no entries for Butchers, and only 2 for Butcher and
| both of those are Malus varieties. I would suggest it was a description
| of the colour.

Bloody Butcher is a decorative maize. Blue Jade is another. I reply
merely to confuse.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Presumably because no one sells the plants they do not appear in the
plant finder :~)

Googling world-wide on
"Butchers blue" -apron -candy
gives several hundred hits not one of which refers to a plant, so I'm
inclined to the view it doesn't exist as a variety name.
(-apron gets rid of most of the butchers apron type sites. Don't ask
about the -candy)
--
Kay