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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social

Pink toadflax in the park 🌱📷 #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour #Bloomscrolling #PinkMon #ColourADay #EastCoastKin #Flowers

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sep 1, 2025, 8:19 pm • 78 7

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TraceyT @traceytaylor.bsky.social

So pretty! We have the ‘Fairy Bouquets’ (multi-coloured) variety and they are one of my all time favourite flowers. I’ve not seen this type previously, just the pale yellow. Definitely will be on a mission to get some seeds of this beautiful pink variety❤️

sep 1, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social

A multicoloured variety? I like the sound of that, we mostly just get pink and purple here! #GardensHour

sep 1, 2025, 8:32 pm • 4 0 • view
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TraceyT @traceytaylor.bsky.social

🌱These are not particularly good photos but do show the multitudes of different colours and combinations. They are prolific seed producers too!

Photo depicts a rather enormous clump of multicoloured Linaria maroccana 'Fairy Bouquet flowers, a member of the Toadflax family, in a variety of colours ranging from purple, pink, yellow in many different variations and shades.
sep 1, 2025, 8:49 pm • 26 2 • view
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social

Nice! #GardensHour

sep 1, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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Joe Seals @backtothenewbasics.bsky.social

2/2... L. maroccana is naturally a purplish color with a bit of white in it but it's been selected over many years to produce all manner of colors and is usually sold as a mix (Tracy's photos). There's plenty of other good-looking Linaria out there.

sep 2, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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Joe Seals @backtothenewbasics.bsky.social

Just to clarify some possible confusion here, your species, Rick, is Linaria purpurea; it comes in pale purple and the pink plus an uncommon white form. It's a short lived hardy perennial. Tracy's species is Linaria maroccana. It's a Mediterranean cool-season annual. 1/2

sep 2, 2025, 10:39 pm • 2 0 • view