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RHS Chelsea -plant ID

AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

I have really enjoyed watching RHS Chelsea.

Can anyone give me headstart of the names of these plants? - I'd love to get them for my own garden

Thanks

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,154

    The purple one is lysimachia Beaujolais atropurpureum.  You can get the seeds from several suppliers if you google them.

    The golden one looks like some form of verbascum which comes in many heights and colours and is either biennial or a short lived but freely seeding perennial.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Thank you obelixx, That was quick.

    I'm going to start looking for them now

  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    After your answer -and a google - I have just found the plant list for the M&G garden http://www.mandgchelsea.co.uk/2015-garden/plant-list/

     

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,154

    Happy to help.  I fell in love with that purple lysimachia several years ago when I saw it on the Hilliers stand at Chelsea and I always have some verbascums on the go but usually the phoenicum group which comes in shades from white through pinks to purples.   They're shorter and a bit tidier than the bigger varieties.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Thank to GWForum I have now found the plant lists - the first one above (with the lysimachia)

    and the verbascum was in the Homebase garden http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/static/chelsea/urban-retreat-plant-list

  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Please could someone give me a name for the white flower in the first picture?  - planted with the lysimachia

    Thanks

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,238
    Centranthus ruber 'Alba'. White form of that pinky red flower you see growing out of old walls.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,184

    Alex - I think if you contact Homebase after Chelsea - you'll get some help with sourcing the details of all the planting. image

    I can't make out the white plant well enough for you as it's a bit blurry when I enlarge, but I'm sure someone else will ID it. It looks a bit like an allium though...image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Thank you both.

    It was in the M&G garden and I put the plant list above but didn't know what I was looking for. On the list I find  - Centranthus Album

     

     

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