{"id":10863,"date":"2012-09-16T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:51:13","slug":"variegated-pink-centranthus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/variegated-pink-centranthus\/","title":{"rendered":"Variegated Pink Centranthus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week (September 2012)\u00a0I received an email from Paul who said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have come across a variegated pink Centranthus (Valerian) and I\u00a0can&#8217;t find it listed in any of my large collection of books. Can you\u00a0tell me if one exist or is it just a freak of nature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I did some research online and in my own large collection of books and I couldn&#8217;t find any mention of a varigated Centranthus so I went onto the RHS and Gardeners World Forums both of which were very helpful; here&#8217;s what they suggested and my progress to-date.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing everyone asked for was photographs so Paul sent through these (click to see larger image):\n<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 580px\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/centranthus1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10864\" title=\"Variegated Pink Centranthus a\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/centranthus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/centranthus3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10866\" title=\"Variegated Pink Centranthus b\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/centranthus3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/centranthus2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10865\" title=\"Variegated Pink Centranthus c\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/centranthus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>One person suggested speaking to Bob Brown at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgf.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cotswold Garden Flowers<\/a> who specialises in variegated plants. I&#8217;ve sent through the photographs and am waiting for a response.<\/p>\n<p>Another suggestion was Bressingham Plants who have a guide on what to do if you think you have a new plant\u00a0and Thompson &amp; Morgan have a similar guide and even offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thompson-morgan.com\/public\/QLOnline\/product?portal:componentId=32485735&amp;portal:type=action&amp;portal:isSecure=false&amp;productCode=kww2056TM&amp;page=mainview&amp;readAllReviews=true#__lastpassid__=995662176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a3500 Reward for a new plant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have contact Paul to see how he want to proceed and I&#8217;ll update this post as things progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week (September 2012)\u00a0I received an email from Paul who said: &#8220;I have come across a variegated pink Centranthus (Valerian) and I\u00a0can&#8217;t find it listed in any of my large collection of books. Can you\u00a0tell me if one exist or is it just a freak of nature&#8221;. I did some research online and in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chat","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15738,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions\/15738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}