NAME The 10 plants??????

Err...�£25??

 

No, Blackthorn, as to the price. Any guesses on the plants?

 

Thanks LOL - I really haven't done well in getting my 10 plants in place!

Now, this lot look really difficult to me, but here are my guesses...

salvia
black eyed susan
verbena
ivy-leaved pelargonium (or maybe that one is in the background!)
allysum?

Should know the name of the one in the foreground - but can't think of it!

How did I do?

As for cost...I would guess �£24.95 as plants, a lot less if you grew them from seed (which would be very impressive!)

Edit - just noticed Blackthorn's price guess - looks like I got it wrong too!

 

I am trying to get the yellow flower, looks like a trumpet of some sort, datura maybe?

 

JarBax, doing okay there. You've got three out of five.

Pricewise, the last five figure was a pence figure. Goodness no, growing from seed, I'm useless with that ... I had just got back from the garden centre! :D

Certainly NOT a Datura, Blackthorn ... JarBax has that one right.

roders has the foregound right. Put it all together what everyone has guessed, but there's one still missing, and you're all way off on the price.

 

Well. I know which ones I've got wrong - but am no further forward with the names of the other two! You'll have to put me out my misery soon!

I can only imagine you got a great bargain...�£14.95?

 

Tomorrow I'll put everyone out of their misery ... but I need some more guesses tonight!

 

I could only identify a couple - verbena, salvia , and rudbeckia.

As for the sprawly greyish plant with the fiery flowers - don't recognise that at all.

 

Aha-aha-aha - the lotus is the one at the front -not lotus as in waterlily - but lotus as in 'Lotus maculatus x berthelotii 'Fire Vine'' (had some searching to do to get that one!)

So...
Lotus
salvia
black eyed susan
verbena
and the one I can't get is the candytufty one I thought was allysum.

Is that nearly right? :confused:

 

Time to reveal all ...

The plants I bought on Saturday are ...



... the plants in the background are ...



I'm afraid you were all a little off on what I paid. For the seven original plants on the table, ie, 2 x Lotus, 2 x Verbena, 1 Cherry Pie, 1 Black-eyed Susan and 1 Alyssum was ....

€13,61 (this Garden Centre always has these odd amounts, think they still use Escudos and convert although they are computerised)

�£8.85 (using 6.5 as the conversion rate, but I don't know what it exactly is)

 

Aaaaaarrrggghhhhh - the allysum was right! And I could have sworn that was spirea - though I called it salvia second time around - just testing *ahem*! Fantastic bargain - in fact unbelievable! You could have paid that for one of those plants over here (in a pricey place!) - but that is just amazing! Well done on a stunning collection of purchases! And thankyou again!

Does anybody want me to put a 10 to identify quiz together?

 

I didn't see your post, JarBax, but well done, you guessed the most.

Please do, this is a good test of our knowledge of plants, even everyday ones, and thanks for participating in mine!

 

Well done all and thanks for the quiz LoL

 

I went back and got two more of the Lotus as they were about �£1.90 for a 14cm pot and already quite large as you can see!

Your welcome, Blackthorn. Looking forward to the collection from JarBax now!

 

OK - this really was a 'throw a few pots in a corner' job - as I have a maths exam on Tuesday - and am spending every spare second revising (I failed maths when I was at school - but could do with it now to go into primary teaching!). So excuse the slapdash messyness of it all!

There are 10 plants to spot in here - one isn't visible in the closer shot though, so may be a bit tricky - clues available on request! Just simple names required - as I don't know most of the full/more specific/complicated ones! Extra points for the 'weed' which I rather like - so leave to spread around!

Here goes...



Closer view: