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Pam Moore 20-10-2004 03:54 PM

Not purple daisy
 
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:19:37 +0200, "joop"
wrote:

Hi
When we are in England (every holiday for the last 28 years) we love the
English gardens and countryside. When we are in Cornwall we always see a
very common purple wallflower. We love that flower and is unknown by us in
Holland. We think the flower (plant) is so very common that we can't find a
picture and name (English or Latin or Dutch) on internet. We call it purple
daisy, however that is not the right name. Please, who can help us?


I am thinking of the mesembryanthemum ("Hottentot fig") that grows
over the walls in Cornwall and the Scillies. That is a purple
daisy-like flower.

Pam in Bristol

Pam Moore 20-10-2004 04:02 PM

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:54:42 GMT, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:19:37 +0200, "joop"
wrote:

Hi
When we are in England (every holiday for the last 28 years) we love the
English gardens and countryside. When we are in Cornwall we always see a
very common purple wallflower. We love that flower and is unknown by us in
Holland. We think the flower (plant) is so very common that we can't find a
picture and name (English or Latin or Dutch) on internet. We call it purple
daisy, however that is not the right name. Please, who can help us?


I am thinking of the mesembryanthemum ("Hottentot fig") that grows
over the walls in Cornwall and the Scillies. That is a purple
daisy-like flower.

Pam in Bristol

Looks as though I'm wrong in calling it Hottentot fig. Just looked
that up and it's similar but yellow. The mesembryanthemum is purple.


Pam in Bristol

Sacha 20-10-2004 06:20 PM

On 20/10/04 4:02 pm, in article ,
"Pam Moore" wrote:

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:54:42 GMT, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:19:37 +0200, "joop"
wrote:

snip
We think the flower (plant) is so very common that we can't find a
picture and name (English or Latin or Dutch) on internet. We call it purple
daisy, however that is not the right name. Please, who can help us?


I am thinking of the mesembryanthemum ("Hottentot fig") that grows
over the walls in Cornwall and the Scillies. That is a purple
daisy-like flower.

Pam in Bristol

Looks as though I'm wrong in calling it Hottentot fig. Just looked
that up and it's similar but yellow. The mesembryanthemum is purple.


But I don't think that would be hard to identify, either from other people
or from a Google search.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)



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