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Often called something like "whirling butterflies" for common names. Several varieties, all drought-tolerant once established. Long-blooming and they have an airy feel in the garden. I like them to fill in and cover up yellowing leaves from spring bulbs.
Your mystery plant looks very substantial and "beefy", whereas Gaura is wispy and thin. Also, the leaves look wrong. Too big and shiny. Perhaps a cultivar, but I haven't found one yet with that kind of substance.
When I looked at just the flower. I thought it was a gaura. The leaves are definitely wrong. Could it be a type of lily? The leaves seem wrong for that too.
Kathryn, where did you take the photo?
...and it had no identifying marker and none of the master gardener's could help. There were several of us trying to figure out what it was, too. The flowers look like jester's hats with bells on the ends of the points, eh?
I couldn't find a guara with these leaves or the interesting vining on the petals.
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your flowers
are a Gaura cultivar
Agree, and probably Gaura lindheimeri
Often called something like "whirling butterflies" for common names. Several varieties, all drought-tolerant once established. Long-blooming and they have an airy feel in the garden. I like them to fill in and cover up yellowing leaves from spring bulbs.
http://www.paghat.com/gaura2.html
Stumped...
I don't think this is Gaura.
Your mystery plant looks very substantial and "beefy", whereas Gaura is wispy and thin. Also, the leaves look wrong. Too big and shiny. Perhaps a cultivar, but I haven't found one yet with that kind of substance.
I agree w/ insanelysane
When I looked at just the flower. I thought it was a gaura. The leaves are definitely wrong. Could it be a type of lily? The leaves seem wrong for that too.
Kathryn, where did you take the photo?
Rutgers Gardens
...and it had no identifying marker and none of the master gardener's could help. There were several of us trying to figure out what it was, too. The flowers look like jester's hats with bells on the ends of the points, eh?
I couldn't find a guara with these leaves or the interesting vining on the petals.