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HulaHoop

2008-03-26, 1:25 pm


I hope these pictures show up and someone could help me identifying a
mystery bush in my garden.
Recently moved into a new house and have no idea what this is could
anyone help?

[image:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush1.jpg]
[image:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...ut/100_1020.jpg]
[image:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush3.jpg]




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HulaHoop
Cat(h)

2008-03-26, 1:25 pm

On Mar 26, 12:06=A0pm, HulaHoop <HulaHoop.2601...@gardenbanter.co.uk>
wrote:
> I hope these pictures show up and someone could help me identifying a
> mystery bush in my garden.
> Recently moved into a new house and have no idea what this is could
> anyone help?
>
> [image:http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush1.jpg]
> [image:http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...ut/100_1020.jpg]=


> [image:http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush3.jpg]
>
> --
> HulaHoop


Some ilk of an oleander?
I wish mine looked half as healthy, if I'm right!!

Cat(h)
Sacha

2008-03-26, 1:25 pm

On 26/3/08 12:06, in article HulaHoop.26015b7@gardenbanter.co.uk, "HulaHoop"
<HulaHoop.26015b7@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote:

>
> I hope these pictures show up and someone could help me identifying a
> mystery bush in my garden.
> Recently moved into a new house and have no idea what this is could
> anyone help?
>
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush1.jpg]
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...ut/100_1020.jpg]
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush3.jpg]
>
>
>

Possibly a Hebe - maybe H. salicifolia.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'


Charlie Pridham

2008-03-26, 1:25 pm

In article <HulaHoop.26015b7@gardenbanter.co.uk>,
HulaHoop.26015b7@gardenbanter.co.uk says...
>
> I hope these pictures show up and someone could help me identifying a
> mystery bush in my garden.
> Recently moved into a new house and have no idea what this is could
> anyone help?
>
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush1.jpg]
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...ut/100_1020.jpg]
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush3.jpg]
>
>
>
>
>

Its a Hebe, not sure which one.

--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea
K

2008-03-26, 1:25 pm

"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> writes
>On Mar 26, 12:06_pm, HulaHoop <HulaHoop.2601...@gardenbanter.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>Some ilk of an oleander?
>I wish mine looked half as healthy, if I'm right!!
>

Hebe? - I think you can see the dead flower spikes.
--
Kay
Des Higgins

2008-03-26, 5:25 pm

On Mar 26, 3:55=A0pm, "Cat(h)" <cathy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 12:06=A0pm, HulaHoop <HulaHoop.2601...@gardenbanter.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
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>
>
> Some ilk of an oleander?
> I wish mine looked half as healthy, if I'm right!!
>
> Cat(h)


Was in Naas (rhymes with mace for you foreigners) on Monday (buying
lunch in M+S) and on to Pollardstown Fen to see if it is still there.
It was still there. We stopped at the monster garden centre
(Johnstown?) on way back. It is a horrible place in many ways (piped
"music" in the half/outdoors area) but it does have a huge range of
stuff. Bought seeds and onion sets.

Des
echinosum

2008-03-26, 5:25 pm


HulaHoop;780748 Wrote:
> I hope these pictures show up and someone could help me identifying a
> mystery bush in my garden.
> Recently moved into a new house and have no idea what this is could
> anyone help?
>
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush1.jpg]
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...ut/100_1020.jpg]
> [image:
> http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/...Trout/bush3.jpg]

I think it's a hebe. There's an awful lot of species/varieties, and I
don't "do" hebes myself, so not much more help than that.




--
echinosum
Dave Poole

2008-03-26, 5:25 pm

Definitely Hebe and if it isn't salicifolia, it is almost certainly a
hybrid with that species in its recent background. The trouble is
that many Hebes are highly promiscuous and interbreed freely,
resulting in a mess of hybrids that are a devil to nail a definitive
ID. They also seed quite freely and volunteer plants are not uncommon
so un-named hybrids occur with regularity. A picture of the plant in
flower might help, but there's a few months to go before it
performs.
HulaHoop

2008-03-27, 3:25 am


Thanks for your replies.
Its narrowed it down a lot for me.....Ill see if I can find out what
kind of hebe it is. Seems very nice anyway so I won't be moving it




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HulaHoop
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