flora:tolkien_plants
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| - | ====== Tolkien-inspired plants ====== | + | ====== Tolkien-inspired plants ====== |
| {{ :flora:hobbit_hole_with_yellow_door_3.jpg?300|}} | {{ :flora:hobbit_hole_with_yellow_door_3.jpg?300|}} | ||
| It would probably be easier to list the types of plant he didn't inspire. | It would probably be easier to list the types of plant he didn't inspire. | ||
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| === Evil cultivars: === | === Evil cultivars: === | ||
| - | Iris 'Eye of Sauron' with "Medium steel violet blue standards, paler grey violet edge and veins up midrib; medium steel violet blue falls, ecru rim, large dark charcoal plum spot veined wide tan to white 2/3 of way out, white dart bisects spot at end of beard". [https://garden.org/plants/view/536988/Standard-Dwarf-Bearded-Iris-Iris-Eye-of-Sauron/ ] It actuall looks quite nice! | + | Iris 'Eye of Sauron' with "Medium steel violet blue standards, paler grey violet edge and veins up midrib; medium steel violet blue falls, ecru rim, large dark charcoal plum spot veined wide tan to white 2/3 of way out, white dart bisects spot at end of beard". [https://garden.org/plants/view/536988/Standard-Dwarf-Bearded-Iris-Iris-Eye-of-Sauron/ ] It actually looks quite nice! |
| === A bunch of hostas === | === A bunch of hostas === | ||
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| * 'Academy Weathertop' (medium green, 2000) | * 'Academy Weathertop' (medium green, 2000) | ||
| - | From [https://www.plantsgalore.com/hostas/words/T/Type-Names-Tolkein-Related.aspx ] | + | From [[https://www.plantsgalore.com/hostas/words/T/Type-Names-Tolkein-Related.aspx|plantsgalore.com]] |
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| + | === A plethora of roses === | ||
| + | I just assume there are lots of roses with Tolkienish names. Because there are lots of named roses. Indeed, so many quirky and literary ones that I looked through a whole bunch of roses with references to Shakespeare, Hardy and Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael), but nothing so far with Tolkien! | ||
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| + | Oh well, there are candidates. Such as: | ||
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| + | * Rosa Fellowship ('Harwelcome'). Floribunda, orange flower. [[https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/fellowship|davidaustinroses]] | ||
flora/tolkien_plants.txt · Last modified: 2021/03/19 20:20 by ranveig
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