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tim

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Please - can't remember the name??
« on: August 01, 2007, 17:21:51 »
The purple thing.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2007, 17:40:49 »
dont have a clue what it is but its pretty.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2007, 18:35:57 »
Clever Girl - nothing like what we remembered.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2007, 19:34:29 »
It's lovely- is it easy to grow? Seem to remember sowing some seeds without any success.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2007, 20:00:14 »
I'll consult No1 who sowed it.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2007, 17:28:11 »
She says she found it a bit temperamental early on, but now it self-seeds.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2007, 19:07:18 »
Worth another try, then!

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2007, 20:18:42 »
She says she found it a bit temperamental early on, but now it self-seeds.

As the song goes - 'here there and everywhere'!!

A bit like verbena bonariensis - once you've got it - you've got it for life!!

But they are pretty, and wouldn't be without them.

Anybody interested in seed of Dierama pulcherrimum aka angels fishing rods?  In my book they are similar to the above mentioned plants.  Taken me ages, and a lot of tlc to get my Dierama to flowering.  Then what happens, they self seed all over the place.

Another plant that did this was Campanula lactiflora.  Could I get it to grow from seed, could I buffalo.  I bought a plant from a garden centre, let it go to seed and I have loads of the plants all over the garden.

But that's gardening, and I'm not complaining - just pointing out the nature of the beasties.

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2007, 20:30:29 »
how pretty - just love it!

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2007, 20:33:53 »
I have that, its been in a corner for years now.  Its gets slowly strangled by mombretia but survives every year to come again.  Last year it survived the roots of a giant sunflower. 

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Re: Please - can't remember the name??
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2007, 09:25:14 »
Forgot this one - eight feet!

 

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