Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: garddwr on October 25, 2008, 11:16
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Please could someone identify this bunch of flowers as I would like to try and grow something similar next year.Thanks
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Different types of Dalia
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The big orange one looks like Dahlia to me :?
The pink ones carnations
The red ones at the back Freshia :?
Sarah :)
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IMO think red ones at back are alstromerias.............
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gypsophilia (sp) for the white frothy ones.
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gypsophilia (sp) for the white frothy ones.
Is that like a weed I see always growing everywere at the side of the road.Like elderflower
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gypsophilia (sp) for the white frothy ones.
Is that like a weed I see always growing everywere at the side of the road.Like elderflower
If it was, snap it up and flog it to the florists. :lol: I think you might be seeing cow parsley :wink:
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ah yes I think it was cow parsley but it's very similar
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The pink ones are either pinks or most likely carnations, but the yellow & coppery orange in the middle are chrysanthamums - they should have a distinctive (hard to describe) lemony/pungent scent if you crush the leaves (which are elongated & scalloped - see the leaf dead centre at the front and also to the left beneath the blooms in the top picture) Don't know what the bell like pinky red ones are at the centre back.
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i also thiok the red/pinky ones at the back are astrolmerias, pink carnations, yellow dahlias, gypsophilia, chrysanth in the middle?
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http://www.chrysanthemums.info/ukdci/index.htm
http://www.nationalchrysanthemumsociety.org.uk/NCS-gallery.htm
http://www.chrysanthemums.info/signpost/index.htm
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The white fluffy ones are gypsophila. (No 'i' after the 'l'). Very easy to grow from seed. Also come in pink. Also Known as 'Baby's Breath'. They are perennial keep coming back.
Pink carnations very easy to grow from seed and perennial. Easy to take cuttings from.
Looking at My T&M catalogue the ones at the back do indeed look very much like alstromerias.
Big fat yellow and red one looks like a chrysanthamum could be a Dahlia.
The lovely daisy like yellow ones I think are also chrysanthamums.
http://www.superstock.co.uk/stock-photos-images/1555R-125007
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The white fluffy ones are gypsophila. (No 'i' after the 'l'). Very easy to grow from seed. Also come in pink. Also Known as 'Baby's Breath'. They are perennial keep coming back.
Pink carnations very easy to grow from seed and perennial. Easy to take cuttings from.
Looking at My T&M catalogue the ones at the back do indeed look very much like alstromerias.
Big fat yellow and red one looks like a chrysanthamum could be a Dahlia.
The lovely daisy like yellow ones I think are also chrysanthamums.
http://www.superstock.co.uk/stock-photos-images/1555R-125007
thanks for that
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The white fluffy ones are gypsophila. (No 'i' after the 'l'). Very easy to grow from seed. Also come in pink. Also Known as 'Baby's Breath'. They are perennial keep coming back.
Pink carnations very easy to grow from seed and perennial. Easy to take cuttings from.
Looking at My T&M catalogue the ones at the back do indeed look very much like alstromerias.
Big fat yellow and red one looks like a chrysanthamum could be a Dahlia.
The lovely daisy like yellow ones I think are also chrysanthamums.
http://www.superstock.co.uk/stock-photos-images/1555R-125007
Everybody is right, Alstro, Gyp, Pink carnations, bronze and yellow chrysanthemums. But definitely no dahlias. The large chrysant is known as incurved variety and the yellow ones are spray variety. Lovely bouquet. Mrs Bouquet
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Do you think it would be possible to grow this kind of boquet mrs bouquet ?
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Do you think it would be possible to grow this kind of b
oquet mrs bouquet ?
Yes I don't see why not, you could substitute the fern leaves, with some other foliage. But remember all those flowers were grown under glass for the trade, so instead of carnations try the smaller and easier spray pinks with a lovely scent. The most difficult thing would probably be the large chrysanthemums, which you have to grow strictly and cover the flowers with bags etc, and earwigs can be a real pest with them. The gyp, is easy from seed, and alstro is also straightforward. Good Luck. Mrs Bouquet
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thanks bouquet