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What's my name?
Chiad Fhear
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Hi there
Can someone please name the bush in the picture for me? I seem to have lost the label it came with.
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Chiad Fhear
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I like it. It's grown wherever I've put it and doesn't have tantrums
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks both
It looks a bit straggly at the moment so I've tried taking a couple of cuttings with the intentions of replacing it for next year.
Chiad Fhear
You can trim it after it's finished flowering to tidy it up a bit, or you can cut it right hard back in April, down to six inches or so and it will rejuvenate. You'll lose the flowers for that one year if you do that, but a lot of people just grow it for the foliage
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi again
It's quite a tall bush - about 6 feet - and I've had a look through a gardening encyclopaedia I got many, many moons ago and can't identify it there with the names given. I've taken a couple more pictures ...
Chiad Fhear
If it's an old book look up Senecio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/102.shtml
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Brachyglottis, formerly Senecio, 'Sunshine'
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks for that - query solved!
Chiad Fhear
PS The Gardening Encyclopaedia dates back to the mid 1960's and was compiled in weekly installments. It's quite a tome!
If it's 1960's you'll have difficulty finding half the stuff available in garden centres today ! Every time I think I've got to grips with the proper naming of plants they are changed .
And so many new plants have been introduced too. I have the 1989 RHS Encyclopedia and that's hopelessly out of date not just with names but with the old hardiness classifications system.
Now I check things online on the RHS and other websites or on here.
My neighbour has this plant growing as a hedge, not surprised its a classed as a weed in New Zealand, the snails love it, walking down the path at night can be very crunchy if you don't have a torch