Day: May 26, 2020

There was a little drama getting onto WordPress for Tuesday Treats, but hopefully I’ll get this finished!

The answers to last week’s Tuesday Treats have been added in – they’re here, if you want to check:

https://thepleasuregardener.blog/2020/05/19/tuesday-treats-8/

 

It’s time for this week’s mystery plants.  See what you make of these.

1

Edited to add:  A red hot poker, of course, almost certainly Kniphofia ‘Atlanta’, named for the hotel in Cornwall where it was first found.  A very reliable May-flowerer.

 

2  The pink-flowered shrub

Edited to add:  Weigela, believed to bee ‘Bristol Ruby’

 

3  The orange flowers

Edited to add: Papaver orientale ‘Brilliant’.  And it is!

 

4  The purple flowers

Edited to add:  the lovely Allium ‘Purple Sensation’.

 

5

Edited to add: A Dutch Iris, probably ‘White Magic’

 

6  Yes, this plant.  Also, name the type of inflorescence, for Brownie points.

Edited to add: Arum italicum ssp italicum ‘Marmoratum’.  It used to be called Arum italicum ‘Pictum’, which means ‘painted’, like the Picts.  ‘Marmoratum’ means ‘marbled’.

The inflorescence – it has a hooded spathe which contains the flowers on a club-like spadix.  If you got that, have a nice cup of tea and a good sit down.

 

7  The white flowers in the centre foreground.

Edited to add: Camassia leichtlinii ‘Alba’.  Named for Max Leichtlin who founded a botanical garden in Baden-Baden, and specialized in the cultivation and propagation of bulbous plants.

 

8

Edited to add: Nectaroscordum siculum, the Sicilian honey garlic.  ‘Siculum’, unsurprisingly, means ‘of Sicily’, although it ranges across Southern Europe.

 

Best of luck!