I wish I could tell you which euphorbia this is, enjoying the ever warming sun in my garden yesterday. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a label.
Sometimes I think my name should be the Hypocrite Gardener.
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Off The Edge Gardening 
Having entered the land of mystical unnamed Bromeliads – I am thinking the labeling drama can be relaxed. I found out my lovely apricot flowered bromeliad is called Apocalypta!
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What an amazing/scary name! Sounds wonderful though.
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I won a Euphorbia in a HPS raffle on Saturday. The label says “Euphorbia”. We can wonder which ones we have together.
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Well done, I love a raffle! I went back and found the label, it is Euphorbia x martinii, you can share it with me if you like.
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No matter how conscientious you are, the labels will get lost. Funny, I just came across a reference to Euphorbias in Margaret Drabble’s latest novel, “The Dark Flood Rises”. In the novel, there is a house built on lava on one of the Canary Islands. The house is surrounded by plantings of cactus and euphorbia. “. . .their dramatic black tufa and whitewash volcanic home of caves and bubbles, of the scarlet and pink and olive grey and lime green and acid yellow spears of their euphorbia garden.”
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What a lovely quote, very evocative! Posted your poppy seed today, hope they get there safe and sound. 🙂
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What a cheering prospect! More snow today. 😯
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I find it very frustrating to lose a plant label, you can be sure it is the plant people ask you the name of when visiting.
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Exactly! It must be called somebody’s Law. 🙂
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I think it was Roy Strong that said he couldn’t abide plant labels because they make a garden look like a miniature graveyard. With or without a label your euphorbia will be just as lovely. I can’t wait for mine to get going!
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And it doesn’t care what its name is!
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I love Euphorbias, characias subsp. wulfenii, ‘Ascot Rainbow’ & x martini all looking good here despite the weather, schillingii buds starting to poke their noses above the soil so I hope we do not get a really cold snap before spring.
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