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I'm a sucker for green flowers of all sorts and that includes flowers with green markings. These alstroemerias were cheap, they're certainly cheerful and they will flower for a long time.

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Love alstromeria (Peruvian lilies) ... there is also a flower which doesn't seem popular any longer but which we had in our garden years ago. Bought them in pots and put them in the border: salpiglossis. They are similar in looks to alstomeria but behave a bit like petunias, not liking to have their petals soaked by rain.

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I'm not so keen on salpiglossis, or petunias. I don't like alstroemerias in the garden except for a wonderfully weird one I grew once, called Alstroemeria psittacina. The darker of the two flowers in the pictures loks as if it might be that one. They are such good cut flowers.

From: (Anonymous)

Like you I'm not keen on petunias in the garden, but do like salpiglossis (even though I've not had them for years.) This year I wanted some white antirrhinums but could not find any anywhere. And so many garden centres have mixed boxes of bedding plants when I want to choose my own colours so that I don't end up with the 'Smartie effect'.
This morning I did the 'big' shop in Morrisons and came home with two bunches of the most wonderful Brompton stocks, one bunch purple, the other magenta. They smell wonderful!
Margaret P