Can you help identify this plant?
My Dad has this plant in his garden. It is festooned with beautiful, small, white flowers in summer.
We have no idea what it is and can't get a cutting to root.
I love this plant and would like to buy it - can you help tell us what it is?
Many thanks friends,
Dubloon
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Photos here.....apologies
May be wrong, but could be Hebe cockayniana or similar .
Just out of interest , I googled the above but could find no match .
It's a name I picked up years ago from a now deceased friend ; maybe another forum member will know of any name changes ?
(That's if I got it right )!
PS should be H.cockayiana!
Last edited: 04 January 2018 15:10:26
Paul ... is this the one?http://www.hebesoc.org/hebes/hebes_c/hebe_cockayniana/hebe_cockayniana.htm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove
Looks like the one I searched for on Google ; alas to no avail !
Well done for finding it ; do you think it's the right ID ??
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It seems a pretty good match to me Paul although it says that it rarely flowers 'in captivity'
I seem to remember Hostafan identifying a hebe very like this one a while back but I can't remember what it was called and I can't find the thread ... and Hosta's on holiday in the sun at the moment so may not be reading this ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove
Seems like Dubloons Dad does well to get it to flower !
Last edited: 04 January 2018 15:46:33
The pics look as if it could be Alpine Mint..
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Definitely a hebe. probably not H. cookiana (named after captain cook)
Looks like Prostanthera cuneata alpine mint bush. Leaves have a very distinctive smell. Small white flowers.
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