some flowers change colour as they age, giving the impression of more than
one colour on the bush.
cheers Sally
Sally Evans
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: again Re: Flower Plant name query
> Lots of Melbourne gardens have these glories, simply known here as Echium.
>
>
> On 26/3/08 11:05 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Anny and Mark, for your vigourous plant/flower searches.
>> I am sorry to say, in this case, you are not winners.
>>
>> A friend in local horticulture came up with both accurate photo and
>> name:
>>
>> Pride of Madeira
>>
>> for picture and furhter details go to:
>>
>> http://daviswiki.org/Pride_of_Madeira
>>
>> Normally a kind of dense green leaf shrub, it's flourishing in bloom and
>> beautiful this time of year in coastal California.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Stephen
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>>
>> Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote: No, I think I know
>> what
>> they are but I never knew their name. They are tall,
>> over one meter, is that right? And they come in different colors, all
>> shades
>> of blue but also rose and pink. They might be of the orchid family
>> because
>> each tiny flower (of the bigger bunch) has a similar pattern, and they
>> stand
>> tall toward the sky. I found on the net some blue flowers of the ginger
>> family but I cannot find the page any more.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>>
>>> blue bottlebrush? http://thefragguys.com/img/Surbpurpleacro.jpg
>>>
>>> At 05:40 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
>>>> Not it, but thanks. These flowers spiral bunch in the manner of a,
>>>> haha, toilet brush. (from wide diameter at base of many close
>>>> together flowers, to one at the top.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>>
>>>> Mark Weiss wrote: There is a candelabra flower.
>>>> http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/brunswigorient.htm. Failing that,
>>>> scan in a photo of the offending plant and maybe we can do a group
>>>> hunt (and even find some derelict easter eggs).
>>>>
>>>> It occurred to me the other day that agribusiness has missed a bet by
>>>> not marketing its eggs painted this time of year. Me, I prefer bunny
>>>> stew for easter.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 05:14 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
>>>>> I've got a poem going that, currently, suffers from 'nominal fallacy'!
>>>>> I don't know if 'nominal fallacy' was on that original list with
>>>>> 'pathetic fallacy' and all the others. But I have been wrong twice
>>>>> so far on getting the name right on this plant/flower combination
>>>>> and I don't want to risk further embarrassment.
>>>>> First I put 'lavender blue' pedals on a bottle-brush plant. Only
>>>>> to find it was not a bottle-brush because it was pointed out that
>>>>> such plants only have 'red spiky flowers'.
>>>>> Second time through I put 'lilac blue' flowers a ceanothus plant.
>>>>> Which is accurate to such a plant, but it was not the plant. Thank
>>>>> you, Google, for the correcting image!.
>>>>> This morning I found the plant with other such plants - some had
>>>>> raspberry and others had deep blue petals (on vertical 6 to 12 inch
>>>>> spiral, flowering 'branches '.) I asked a passerby. Ten minutes
>>>>> later she came back in her car. "My husband says it called a
>>>>> 'Candle of Madera' ." Indeed the multiple flowering plant looked
>>>>> like an inverted candelabra.
>>>>> However, nowhere to be found on Google!
>>>>> I and my poor, nominally compromised poem will appreciate an
>>>>> accurate report from a knowledgeable green thumb - if there is one
>>>>> on the premises?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance, and, as a reward, I will be happy to send a
>>>>> copy of the repaired poem, even post the corrected version on my
>>>>> blog. I would post a jpeg of the culprit on my blog, but the
>>>>> worn-out camera went in for much need repair.
>>>>>
>>>>> Honestly, perhaps like Spicer, I am trying real hard to put the
>>>>> real flower in a real poem!
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen V
>>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>
>>
>>
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