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[mayhr]

tried to find everywhere...
what is this?
thanks

[adenium]

To me the flowers look like some kind of celosia. The only problem is that celosias are not shrubs and it seems much too big to be one ...

[Rowan]

isn't it a buddleia?
lancate leaves, purple spikes of flowers....

[MrSeedy]

Sorry , but I'd have to see a closeup of the individual flowers. I'll have to think on it a bit longer!! Reminds me a bit of some new Veronicas as well, but those aren't bushes either as far as I know.

[grindle]

Mayhr I think it's a hebe, the closest one I could come up with is Watsons Pink, take a look and see what you think

[decompost]

like adenium, i think it looks like a celosia, perhaps c. argentia (flamingo feather amaranth),
could someone have sowed them that thickly?
or have they, perhaps, been allowed to self-sow in that spot for a long time?
i know that my own will sow very freely, and must be thinned.

[gonzer]

B) I'd lean towards the Celosia family too, just MHwest coastO.

[mayhr]

celosia definetely..thans, but which one? never mind...good enough :-) thanks

[MrSeedy]

I'd gotten the impression that the plant in question was a good sized shrub, but one can never tell size usually in a photograpy without a familiar object nearby to give one a sense of "scale". Looked like from the picture that it was a large shurb, though some annuals even can grow into some mighty impressive sizes.