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Can anyone ID this ceanothus?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/670104...57644625920867 This is the lost-name ceanothus I described last week (see below) in full flower now Can anyone ID it please? Janet Isle of Arran Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening Subject: Ceanothus odd green leaves Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 11:19:49 +0100 (BST) In article , Janet wrote: In article , m... @privacy.net says... On Sat, 24 May 2014 07:50:14 +0100, (Peter James) wrote: I have a one year old Ceanothus that produces a blue flower that is planted in totally the wrong place faceing East rather, than as the book says, a southerly aspect.. It's where it gets full exposure and is fully into the wind, and it doesn't like it. It got frost burnt and wind burnt in the winter, and has reacted by producing a mass of plain green leaves instead of the variegated leaves on the rest of the plant. But I'm reluctantly coming round to agree with NM's comments. Despite ceanothus being described as a maritime plant (it comes from California), it's not a plant suitable for exposed coastal gardens in Cornwall where humidity is always high and salt gales regularly sweep in and cause devastation. I shan't be planting any more. I've has several die young here (including a prostrate one which got blown out of the ground) except for one, that defies all the above. I've long since lost the name. It's in its 12th year from planting and hugely robust, 9ft tall and wide, and covered in flower buds about to open. It's freestanding, facing north and east over the bay, with the feeble protection of a buddliea globosa at its back. The buddliea often gets branches blown off by wind. Rainfall is around 90" a year. We're on a clifftop and regularly subject to severe SW gales with salt; and when we get the occasional cold NE wind it has absolutely no protection from that. Yet it has never "burned". Now, if we could all remember which ones lived and died, we might be able to identify which are rubust against such things, and which aren't! I suspect that the standard rules are over-simplistic. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Can anyone ID this ceanothus?
On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 11:28:54 +0100, Janet wrote:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/670104...57644625920867 This is the lost-name ceanothus I described last week (see below) in full flower now Can anyone ID it please? Victoria? |
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Can anyone ID this ceanothus?
On 06/06/2014 11:28, Janet wrote:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/670104...57644625920867 This is the lost-name ceanothus I described last week (see below) in full flower now Can anyone ID it please? Janet Isle of Arran I don't know it, but from the shape and colour of the flower - if it is a hybrid - I'd bet that it has some Ceanothus arboreus in it. The leaf, however, seems somewhat darker than that of C. arboreus. -- Jeff |
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