Kitchen Garden Forum

Hi Clive,
I think that your plants look very muck like Inula Hookeri. I reckon that Peters flower is either Inula Magnifica or Inula Helena.

Hello Johnboy,

I think the leaves in my photo are larger than those shown for Inula Hookeri.....but I think you may well be correct with the Inula ident for Peters..

Dare I arrive at work in the morning and question the word of the Head Gardener(the book)..who assures me our yellow border plant pictured is Telekia.??

I could not resist taking a few photos today...a pause during dead heading and hoeing...

The photo below is looking down the kitchen garden centre border..having turned 90degrees right hand from the last photo in my previous post.


Now just out of sight and mounted in the brick wall on the right is a stone with a Kipling quotation..."Our England is a garden and such gardens are not made by singing; Oh, how beautiful and sitting in the shade"...

So I put my camera down and re commenced dead heading in the blistering heat..!!

All the best,
Clive.

Clive, my her is over six foot high, the head of blooms in the photo is about ten inches diameter.
The leaves at the base are over a foot long and like thinn floppy donkey ears.
The young lady herbalist who planted it said something about it's root being used in herbal medicines for umpteen symptoms.

On my blogpage http://podsplot.blogspot.com/2006/07/pl ... -last.html this yellow flowered herb is the plant occupying the top left of the first picture.
Also on my blog at http://podsplot.blogspot.com/2006/06/bu ... -post.html when it was about four foot or so high.

Any better ideas as to what the plant is.

Whilst sat in the bath....the name Elacampane??? wandered through my puzzled mind...big tall thing in the back of our herb garden....must have a look tomorrow..

Clive.

Hmmnnn. I've got a something new which looks very similar. I'll look at the label in the morning.

Hi Clive,
Helenium (or Helena) is the cultivated name for Elecampane.

Hello Clive and Peter

I surely don't know the names but I am sure they are wonderful flowers and great pictures.

Barney

Hello,
I checked for said plant in the Herb Garden this lunchtime...


And right in the far corner..

Past "Thlad' the Terrible"

Thladiantha Dubia??


Behind the Stables..not looking the splendid specimen that Peters is...I found this..


Which we refer to as Elecampane...



Now, if I knew how to do thumbnail links I could have done this with a whole load less kb..!!

All the best,
Clive.

Well done and thank you Clive.

Try http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/e/elecam07.html which once you have the name supplied by your good self gives up full details of this monster.

Hello Peter,
I think it is really thanks to Johnboy for posting the botanical name .....
..and the further photos of the tall plant beastie itself...

It is always a useful exercise in learning more plant names..
Where I work there are thousands to try to learn and remember..

If I'm working with Paul(head gardener) and a visitor asks what a plant is....well then Paul can just reel off the answer and that is that....he has done the job twice as long as my c.15 years..!! So the end result of the enquiry is that I don't subsequently remember the plants name...

However if the visitor asks me about a plant...perhaps I get lucky and it's one I know..or if not...it is down to me to check up and find out and then Remember...
It would be bad form to get "caught out" again not knowing.

....it would seem that if I am not asked what a plant is for a long while..then the info gets filed deeper.. and er, lost.??!!..there is no doubt an age related link to this too....

Also it would seem that if I get a few names correct I can surprise myself and be on a roll.. and name "everything" in the garden...
There is the reverse, of course, get a few blanks....and the whole lot is gone..

On home ground...also adds an effect.??....I can know a plant in "my" garden by its location but then cannot apply the name to the same plant elsewhere in another garden.

I sometimes try to recall by adding silly links to the name...like Morina longifolia??...is known as Morris Morina (Marina)..as the memory jog...just as long as as you don't quote the silly to the visitor...or assess well their appreciation of humour...

Contact set for your B&S engine on your Merry Tiller Sir....
....That'll be part no. 294628..

Thanks for the pm ref' thumbnail posting..will have to post a few more else will forget how..

All the best,
Clive.

I don't know what it is either, but your wit makes me simply ROAR with laughter.
Hope you're keeping well.
Wellie

Wonderful thread, in stitches too - and lost in admiration of Clive's garden!

Me too - fantastic garden Clive. Is it open to the public (you mentioned visitors)

It looks amazing - you should be very proud.

Clive your own garden, and your own head gardener, you are a lucky person.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

Wellie wrote:I don't know what it is either, but your wit makes me simply ROAR with laughter.
Hope you're keeping well.
Wellie

Sorry Wellie I missed this.
I'm glad I made you laugh. I think I overstepped the boundary with the missing cat post (which is still not to be found). Now I feel guilty and embarrassed.
Hope you're keeping well too and maybe see you again at Malvern?

Jenny