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Post by NellyDee on Aug 6, 2018 8:46:39 GMT
This was growing in amid rocks but also out of tarmac, not a good photo sorry  What Plant 1 by Helen Skelton, on Flickr I was sent a beautiful bunch of flowers and this was one of the plants. It is beautiful - a grass maybe? It seems to put a glimmering glow around the roses and freesias. I have never seen it before and am intrigued to know what it is.  What plant 2 by Helen Skelton, on Flickr |
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Post by teasel on Aug 6, 2018 10:03:06 GMT
wildflower may be creeping cinquefoil. Other one may be explosion grass.
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 6, 2018 14:26:36 GMT
Thank you teasel. Now I just need to find if it will grown near my pond, though I doubt it as the ground is peat.rock and wet. Still I might have a go, there seems to be plenty of places on-line that sell it.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 9, 2018 4:40:32 GMT
Agree with Creeping Cinquefoil but the grass is Millet- presumably from bird seed.
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 9, 2018 13:01:00 GMT
Definitely not millet - I have lots of that growing round the bird feeders. It is Frosted Explosion Panicum elegans looked it up on RHS and am ordering some seed.
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Post by teasel on Aug 9, 2018 14:25:51 GMT
After googling some more, I think it's a decorative cultivar of millet  |
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 9, 2018 17:14:15 GMT
Definitely not millet - I have lots of that growing round the bird feeders. It is Frosted Explosion Panicum elegans looked it up on RHS and am ordering some seed. Panicums are millets + looks like P. miliaceum! |
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 10, 2018 7:49:32 GMT
With P.miliaceum you can see the seeds drooping down. I agree that Panicum elegans is a decorative cultivar. Confess I did not realise it was of the millet family. Won't be much use for the birds:) I let quite a bit of the millet that grows here go to seed and the birds like it.
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