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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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macca 53 Aug 2017 8:37am, 9 Aug 2017 26,271 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 OK lovely Fetchies - I'm no gardener but I have a new arrival in my garden that is beautiful but wasn't put there deliberately Can anyone identify it please?
Wobbling Aug 2017 8:46am, 9 Aug 2017 5,333 posts	Quote Pin Wobbling It looks like it could be a freesia but the leaves are wrong
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Aug 2017 8:48am, 9 Aug 2017 36,373 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Looks like a fuschia?
macca 53 Aug 2017 8:52am, 9 Aug 2017 26,276 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 I'll take another picture tonight when hopefully the flowers will be out and it's easier to see. Long, trailing "bunches" of flowers......
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Aug 2017 9:09am, 9 Aug 2017 36,376 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy I think I saw that in Cahors last year actually from that description, might see if I have a pic
macca 53 Aug 2017 9:34am, 9 Aug 2017 26,279 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 it's obviously not fussy then - no Cahors-type weather here
Ceratonia Aug 2017 10:11am, 9 Aug 2017 6,018 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia Hard to tell from the photo (how big is it? Can you show the whole plant and a close-up of the flowers?) but my initial guess from the flowers would be leycesteria formosa. Does it have lots of green, bamboo-like stems (i.e. tubular?)
macca 53 Aug 2017 10:21am, 9 Aug 2017 26,284 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 it's thrown up two main stems that are waist high and a number of shorter ones (which are also flowering). The stems are pale green (look like young hydrangea stems) but I haven't cut one to see if it's tubular or not.....
Ceratonia Aug 2017 10:24am, 9 Aug 2017 6,020 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia Simple test - if you look on google images for leycesteria formosa, does it look like that?
macca 53 Aug 2017 10:29am, 9 Aug 2017 26,287 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 why yes it does (and more like "Purple Rain" than "Golden Lanterns")