The “I haven’t got a clue” Flowers

Mae plants all the things in our garden. I am not allowed to touch them or even weed as “you don’t know a flower from a weed”.  I am left to mow the grass and only dig holes as required, oh, and do all the watering!

I therefore rely on Mae to tell me what flower is what.  My knowledge of flowers is limited.  I know the main ones like roses, lilies, chrysanths and such like but she is the one who buys them and plants them, and a nice job she does too!

Take these two flowers. Both are the same variety.

The “I haven’t got a clue” flowers.

That was Mae’s response to my query.

Here’s another one:

Another of Mae’s ‘don’t knows‘

I know these three:

Orange Lily;                      Antirrhinum;                Maroon Holyhock

The Snap Dragon (Antirrhinum) is one of my favourites from childhood. If you take the flower from the stem and hold it’s side and squeeze gently it opens and closes. We had great fun as children making silly voices while holding meaningless conversations.

The Orange Lily was a bit late flowering this year as it had been moved to a larger tub but still put on a lovely display.

I got into trouble after photographing this flower. It was a bit blustery so I used my plamp (see a much earlier post) to stabilise the stem and my ring flash as it was in the shade.  I moved the tripod having finished taking the photographs but forgot the plamp and snapped the stem. Mae was not too impressed but the flower gave a nice display on the kitchen window sill.

Any help with naming these flowers would be appreciated. I have looked on line but cannot identify them.

I think a trip to the garden centre (if Mae can remember what one) from whence they came might help!

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