couple of IDs required please

First is a salvia cutting I've wrongly labelled up as salvia Neon. I'm pretty sure its salvia Amistad...anyone able to confirm?



the second one has been growing in a shady spot for two years...it looks familiar but might be a weed. i honestly cannot remember whether I planted it or not...


all help much appreciated as always x

 

Hi Snorky85, can't help with the first one, but the second is Arum maculatum, the wild form.

 

1. Salvia...sorry cannot help.
2. Arum maculatum...cuckoo pint.

 

The second one is Arum Maculatum, also known as

snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, soldiers diddies, priest's pintle, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast.

Take your pick!

 

I have quite a few salvias but I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with either of these Snorky, I think you must be right if they're the only two possibilities, leaf shape looks more like the latter, more pointed at the tips.

Nick

 

ha ha soldiers diddies That is what I shall call them.

thanks everyone for your help.

i guess I could look up a photo of salvia amistad leaves to confirm

 

Looks like salvia amistad to me.

 

thanks @Perki I've jist looked up the leaves and they seem the same-more pointed than the Salvia neon type. pleased about that as i dont think my other amostads had survived

 

My Amistad stays in the ground and usually survives 5c (briefly).

 

Hmm... I see 'Amistad' is a H3, same as my 'African Sky'. I avoided putting 'African Sky' in a cold greenhouse this year and simply potted it in a large glazed pot, kept it dry and by a house wall when flowering stopped. Despite the very cold spells and it also being deciduous it hasn't even totally died down here in Notts so I might do the same in future years.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/317099/Salvia-African-Sky/Details

Nick

 

I've got some in pots outside next to the house, some in front garden border and some cuttings in the greenhouse. everything was doing great until that blimmin day of snow.

 

I have 2 large Amistad in the borders. I can't lift them as the roots are too deep. At the 1st frosts I cut them to around 4inch at the base and cover with a large plant pot with straw and mulch in until spring. They are 1 of my favourites.

 

ooh thank you @Jasmine star I will check on the ones in my borders.

 

I've tried them overwinter ( Amistad ) outside and they did survive the winter in my most free draining border , only problem then is the slugs like the young shoots so it had to be removed and grown on anyway . It would of surely died this winter if they were outside, I ma a tad worried about the ones in the GH I've lifted.