There was a while a few years
ago when many of the large Nurseries took existing cultivars
(other people's) and gave them new fancy marketing names simply
to drum up business. Things have got slightly better in recent
years and indeed there now seems to be a slight lurch in the
opposite direction. Go to a Garden Centre nowadays and many
interesting and very lovely cultivars have no name at all;
they are simply marketed under titles like 'nice foliage'
etc. Perhaps they are unstable varieties that should never
have had a name at all, but I don't think so.
That little rant was because of the
vile weather here at the moment, and the difficulty getting
outside to even look at the plants let alone photograph them.
The above Anigozanthus (Haemodoraceae family) was bought
about a year ago and merely called the 'kangaroo paw' plant.
So if anyone knows which cultivar it may be, I would like
to hear from them. Possibly related to A. bicolor.
The striped leaves behind it by the way belong to Libertiaperegrinans 'Gold Leaf'.
Plant Portraits through the year
The
plants are arranged in alphabetical order with the date of the photograph
after it.
