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Please help to identify these 2 from San Francisco

JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 241
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Hi There

My uncle has these two plants growing in his new garden in San Francisco and wonders what they are. Is the white flowered one an Australian bottlebrush plant ?

Thanks for your help.

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  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 862
    edited April 2022
    The first one looks like spiderwort ‘Sweet Kate’

    https://plants.jimwhitingnursery.com/Plant-Name/Tradescantia-andersoniana-Sweet-Kate-Spiderwort

    The second one might be a fothergilla
    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,353
    1st one looks like Tradescantia virginiana.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 241
    Thanks both for the very quick responses, if anyone else has any other ideas then do let me know !
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,085
    I can confirm the first as Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' ... I have it growing in my garden. 

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





  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 241
    H Dove from above. Thanks for identifying that- my uncle in the USA says a BIG thank you :) Good to know it grows here too as I want some !
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,439
    I agree it's a tradescanthia but don't know which one.
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
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