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Yet another set of plants for ID please

steveTusteveTu Posts: 2,666
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Good morning all - hope summer is treating you all ok....!
Got a couple (loose term) more plants for id - one shrub, and a pair of flowers.
1) This is a tall daisy like flower - probably about 2-3ft tall.

UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 2,666
    ...2) This can be seen in the background of 1 above - a tall, spreading orange trumpet like flower with long slender leaves.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,753
    Japanese Anenome
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 84,024
    1. Japanese anemone

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 2,666
    ...3) and finally this shrub (jut going off) - it stands over 6ft (I cut it back each year) and it has lilac/blue coloured 'cotton wool ball' type flowers.

    Been a bit odd down here with the weather - so little rain with so much threatened - seems like all the flowers are already coming to an end even though I've been religiously watering them.

    Hope all your lawns are green and your flowers are blossoming..... (vulcan greeting apparently)!
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 8,909
    1. Japanese anemone
    2. Crocosmia
    3. I don't recognise that one and I'm struggling to see the shape of the leaves.  Maybe abutilon?

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • MuddyForkMuddyFork Posts: 435
    3 may be a Hibiscus.  Leaves and flower buds look right
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,699
    I agree, the last photo looks like a Hibiscus.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 2,666
    These hopefully show the leaves, buds and flowers in more detail for 3)

    3a)


    3b)

    3c)

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 2,666
    Thank you all for the IDs...Looks like crocosmia 'scorchio' - now there's a name for a flame orange flower....Got loads of the things - they seem to be taking over more than the ellipses in this post....
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,465
    edited August 2019
    steveTu said:
    Thank you all for the IDs...Looks like crocosmia 'scorchio' - now there's a name for a flame orange flower....Got loads of the things - they seem to be taking over more than the ellipses in this post....
    Impossible to say from your image.
    There are several gorgeous orange cultivars.

    https://www.hardysplants.co.uk/perennials/firestar-scorchio

    http://www.trecanna.co.uk/search.asp?menuoption=crocos

    Quote....Firestars TM 'Scorchio's very large flowers have a yellow base heavily overlaid with orange and red central stripes which radiate from the centre of the flower on the lower petals. Bred by Paul Lewis and introduced by Hardy's at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2018. 

    Additionally it is a new cultivar so if your garden has loads it means they have been there for several years...therefore cannot be a new cultivar.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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