Pretty in Purple

Kedi - I would absolutely love some seeds too - I have fallen in love with your now-identified plant! Please let me know how I can help out with costs etc.

Congratulations Pete! I think it should be called "Pete's Pretty in Purple!"

 

Jarbax, its bad enough me showing a link to gaygardener.com, without you coming up with that name for the plant. :D

 

Thanks for all the investigating, must confess that I have been rather lazy here and was waiting for one of you experts to find it and was sure someone would sooner or later.

Peter and JarBax, I've made a note of seeds so please send me your details, thanks.
Pete, how about you? And I also veto JarBax's suggestion of "Pete's Pretty in Purple"!
Anyone else?

 

I purposely avoided referring to the name of the link, pete, but had a good laugh. Are you a purple sort of person? Does it match your eyes? :rolleyes:

 

Shame the name suggestion wasn't popular! :D

I have pm'd you with details Kedi-Gato, many thanks.

Just wondering if you can give me an idea of it's prefered location, hardiness etc (if you know). Thanks

Ooo - just had a peek in Pete's gaygardener link - how hardy is a plant in the US zone 2 - 9? D'you reckon it would survive a Scottish winter?

 

Can anyone give details of equivalent UK/European areas to the USA hardiness zones.

 

Hi, Mike. We have had several discussions regarding the hardiness zones. The zones were initially devised the the US Department of Agriculture but have been widely adopted around the world.

England is supposedly 7-9 on the World Chart, but with global warming I think this is off somewhat these days.

EU countries vary from 4-10 ... I'm in 10! :D

They are based on the average annual minimum temperature for each zone.

 

I'm not sure who it was, may have been Palustris or Scotkat, but someone recently came up with a UK version of hardiness zones.
I think zone 2 is pretty likely to survive the UK :D :D .

Thanks for the offer of seed Kedi, but I really have got far too many plants, so will have to pass on this one.
If I had more space I'd snap them up.

 

Sis said that we have Zone 6 and once mentioned that Oldenburg is about the same as Leeds, if that helps anyone.

We have ours in a bed with various other things that gets late morning sun, up until about 4pm. It dies back in the winter but comes back about late March. It's an easy plant that requires no attention except for water if it is dry too long. It just doesn't like to be messed around with and divided.

JarBax, I've PM'd you back.

OK, Pete, if you change your mind just say so.

 

I only said Leeds as a guesstimate to the UK, Sis. Always having lived in the South of the UK I can only guess ... others here will have to confirm any temperature zones.

 

There you go guys.
http://www.trebrown.com/hrdzone.html
http://www.hardyexotics.co.uk/hardyexotics/frameset.htm

 

Thanks Walnut, you don't perhaps have one for Germany too??? I looked a couple of months ago but had no luck, probably was phrasing it incorrectly.

 

More info re this plant -

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/Dictamnus.htm

- be sure to read as it appears it takes a long while to bloom when sowen and the seeds should be fresh!!!

 

Thanks for that Kedi-Gato. *notes to self - 1. remember to mark plant with sturdy label. 2. Buy slug deterrent grains*

Do you reckon then as it doesn't like being moved that the seeds should be sown directly into the ground?

 

I don't know about that JarBax, perhaps a bit more googling is in order. Or try both. Actually, I think that you usually sow seeds in a tray, pot or whatever, and then move them after the second or third set of leaves appear. I'll ask DIL if she can remember anything about the plant.