5 May '07 8:07 am Friend Tammy has sent me this pic of a shrub she grows - she can't find out its name. Helpful me first thought it was a lily flower (oops), then thought it looked like a fancy Azalea, until I read her mail properly. It's a branching shrub, 12 feet high! Has anyone any ideas?
Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
How did this post slip in under the radar?
21 May '07 7:08 pm Moosey it sure looks like a lilly to my too. There is a plant collector and co-owner of the Heronswood Nursury near Seattle -name doesn't come to me- who collected seed for and now sells a very large lilly, tall but probably not 12 feet tall. If that is what it is it should be very fragrant too.
In my sunset book they describe a Lilium leucanthum centifolium from China to 7-8 feet tall, with up to 18 fragrant white, somewhat pendulous flowers with purple-red streaks.
Mydnyght
valued member
transtasman located kiwi
30 Sep '07 12:07 am The flower looks like an azalea to me, what do the leaves look like ? An azaleas tend towards the same style as a Rhododendron, albeit on a smaller scale and the majority I have come across have had hairs across the leaves.
poodles
valued helper
queensland australia
tall shrub
23 Jan '08 11:42 pm could this be a bauhimia[i think thats how its spelt , lookes a little like an open orchid type flower
chrizty
contributor
25 Apr '08 6:13 am looks kinda like a sweet mock-orange
