I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they are. Could someone please help? Both photos are vary zoomed in. The purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/...n/P1020728.jpg

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/...n/P1020730.jpg

Thanks.

Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

Hebe
I don't know which of the hebes.

In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:
"kay" wrote
ploppygb Wrote:
I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they
are. Could someone please help? Both photos are vary zoomed in. The
purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://tinyurl.com/6enlkzo

Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

I think it's a Philadelphus.

Yes, but she was posting English and you are posting Latin!

One of the common names for plants in the genus Phildelphus is
syringa, though Syringa is the generic name for lilac :-)
There are lots of gotchas like that ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"kay" wrote


ploppygb Wrote:
I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they
are. Could someone please help? Both photos are vary zoomed in. The
purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://tinyurl.com/6enlkzo


Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

I think it's a Philadelphus.


http://tinyurl.com/4xwaczz


Hebe
I don't know which of the hebes.

Yes, I think so too.

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

Thanks very much.

As far as care of the Mock Orange - it's in full bloom at the moment, but there's about 2-3 ft of new growth poking out the top with no flowers on. What should I do with it after the flowers are gone?

On Jun 12, 8:14*am, wrote:
In article ,

Bob Hobden wrote:
"kay" *wrote
ploppygb Wrote:
I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they
are. *Could someone please help? *Both photos are vary zoomed in.. *The
purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://tinyurl.com/6enlkzo

Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

I think it's a Philadelphus.

Yes, but she was posting English and you are posting Latin!

One of the common names for plants in the genus Phildelphus is
syringa, though Syringa is the generic name for lilac :-)
There are lots of gotchas like that ....

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

If you are going to use the American Syringa for Philadelphus, then
you might as well go back to calling Hebe Shrubby Veronicas

Nick wrote
Bob Hobden wrote:
"kay" wrote
ploppygb Wrote:
I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they
are. Could someone please help? Both photos are vary zoomed in.
The
purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://tinyurl.com/6enlkzo

Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

I think it's a Philadelphus.

Yes, but she was posting English and you are posting Latin!

One of the common names for plants in the genus Phildelphus is
syringa, though Syringa is the generic name for lilac :-)
There are lots of gotchas like that ....


Well I learn something every day, I've never in my life heard Mock Orange
called syringa.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:57:12 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

Nick wrote
Bob Hobden wrote:
"kay" wrote
ploppygb Wrote:
I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they
are. Could someone please help? Both photos are vary zoomed in.
The
purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://tinyurl.com/6enlkzo

Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

I think it's a Philadelphus.

Yes, but she was posting English and you are posting Latin!

One of the common names for plants in the genus Phildelphus is
syringa, though Syringa is the generic name for lilac :-)
There are lots of gotchas like that ....


Well I learn something every day, I've never in my life heard Mock Orange
called syringa.

Vita Sackville-West wrote in 1948 that "...the lilac should be in
flower. It is not called lilac now by the experts. it is called
syringa; and what we used to call syringa is now called philadelphus".
So mock orange was syringa before lilac was.

In message , Jake
writes
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:57:12 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

Nick wrote
Bob Hobden wrote:
"kay" wrote
ploppygb Wrote:
I have the following two plants in my garden and don't know what they
are. Could someone please help? Both photos are vary zoomed in.
The
purple "flowers" are about 2-3 inches long.

http://tinyurl.com/6enlkzo

Mock Orange (Syringa). It should be strongly fragrant.

I think it's a Philadelphus.

Yes, but she was posting English and you are posting Latin!

One of the common names for plants in the genus Phildelphus is
syringa, though Syringa is the generic name for lilac :-)
There are lots of gotchas like that ....


Well I learn something every day, I've never in my life heard Mock Orange
called syringa.

Vita Sackville-West wrote in 1948 that "...the lilac should be in
flower. It is not called lilac now by the experts. it is called
syringa; and what we used to call syringa is now called philadelphus".
So mock orange was syringa before lilac was.

The use of Syringa as the generic name for lilacs goes back to Species
Plantarum (1753). Before Linnaeus's time Syringa was applied to both
lilacs and mock-oranges, sometimes by the same author.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote
The use of Syringa as the generic name for lilacs goes back to Species
Plantarum (1753). Before Linnaeus's time Syringa was applied to both
lilacs and mock-oranges, sometimes by the same author.


1753 is even a bit before my time. :-)

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

I don't know why I said it. I haven't heard them called that for at least 40 years.

"kay" wrote


Bob Hobden Wrote:

Well I learn something every day, I've never in my life heard Mock
Orange
called syringa.


I don't know why I said it. I haven't heard them called that for at
least 40 years.


Well you were quite right to use the word, it's just I hadn't heard it used
before in that context as a common name.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

Sorry to interrupt (!) but does anyone have pruning advice for my Mock Orange, per my earlier question. Thanks.

There's no need to prune for the sake of flowering - they'll come back and flower really well next year even if you leave them alone. So you're pruning just to keep it within the space you have for it.

My approach is to leave alone as much as possible, cut off any bit that is really encroaching, definitely leave any strong shoots from the bottom, and occasionally take out a big old stem from somewhere near the base. I've no idea if this is the recommended approach.