Re: id of plant in Horticulture Dec'01?
- Subject: Re: id of plant in Horticulture Dec'01?
- From: J* D*
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:05:15 -0800
Here's a picture from the La Mortella website:
http://www.ischia.it/mortella/geranio.htm
If that's not one and the same plant, I'll eat it. I can't read the Italian, but the Latin
name is in there, Geranium maderense. Except there's an extra anemonifolium in there, too.
A new name? Old?
Kay Dreher
Berkeley, CA
Diane Whitehead wrote:
>
> I sent this query to the Hardy Plants group but got no response. I
> guess I should have sent it here to begin with, since La Mortella is
> a Mediterranean garden.
>
> I am puzzled by some pink with a darker eye petunia-shaped flowers in
> an ad for a Gardens and Islands Tour on page 67 of the December 2001
> issue of Horticulture magazine. (The same ad may also be in the
> current issue.) What first drew my eye was the gardener, jewelled,
> straw-hatted, lipsticked, with secateurs in hand and a big grin,
> looking like she would be a lot of fun to know. She is Lady Susana
> Walton in her garden, La Mortella, on the island of Ischia. Then I
> started looking at the flowers. What is the pink one in the left
> corner - a shrubby Ruellia or ???
>
> Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
