A budding question
April 15, 2014 1:47 PM Subscribe
Oh gardeners and florists and other plant people of Mefi, can you help me figure out what this flower is?
The gentleman I'm seeing brought me a bouquet. Hooray! Despite familiarity with lots of annual and perennial flowers from my summers at a greenhouse, I don't know what this small pink flower is. Here are some pictures.
In case the photo is unclear: it's bright pink with white at the base, has a bell shape, is about the size of my pinky nail, and is on a very woody stalk (almost like rosemary in its woodiness) with sprays of thread-shaped leaves. The leaves look like coreopsis, but the flower does not, and the stem is thick enough to where it almost seems like a shrub.
Bonus question: can you tell me the rose variety? I'm pretty sure it's 'Freedom' but I'm not sure. Very upright, classic goblet-shaped bloom, a true red with no blue or purple undertones, widely spaced thorns on very long canes, obviously cut at the Mass Market stage.
Thank you garden-mystery-solvers of Mefi!
The gentleman I'm seeing brought me a bouquet. Hooray! Despite familiarity with lots of annual and perennial flowers from my summers at a greenhouse, I don't know what this small pink flower is. Here are some pictures.
In case the photo is unclear: it's bright pink with white at the base, has a bell shape, is about the size of my pinky nail, and is on a very woody stalk (almost like rosemary in its woodiness) with sprays of thread-shaped leaves. The leaves look like coreopsis, but the flower does not, and the stem is thick enough to where it almost seems like a shrub.
Bonus question: can you tell me the rose variety? I'm pretty sure it's 'Freedom' but I'm not sure. Very upright, classic goblet-shaped bloom, a true red with no blue or purple undertones, widely spaced thorns on very long canes, obviously cut at the Mass Market stage.
Thank you garden-mystery-solvers of Mefi!
It looks like waxflower that is a little droopy and just starting to open up.
posted by drlith at 2:03 PM on April 15, 2014
posted by drlith at 2:03 PM on April 15, 2014
Response by poster: Boronia "Pink" it is! Mefi, you are amazing. I'll leave the question open for a while to see if anyone else has input or comments about the rose variety, but I think I can consider the pink flower mystery solved. Thank you!
posted by WidgetAlley at 2:07 PM on April 15, 2014
posted by WidgetAlley at 2:07 PM on April 15, 2014
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posted by dogrose at 2:02 PM on April 15, 2014