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What's this please?
« on: October 13, 2015, 04:53:58 PM »
Growing in a pond in the Dartington Hall gardens. Can anyone give it a name please?

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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2015, 05:54:37 PM »
That's one of my favourite  pond plants, David - Water Hawthorn - Aponogeton distachyos - if you could get your nose to it, you'd find it sweetly scented.
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2015, 07:00:26 PM »
Cheers Maggi, if I'd had me wellies........ ;D
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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2015, 07:53:19 PM »
I am only grateful that no-one has ever had a camera around when I'm dangling myself over the pond to smell the flowers, David  ::)  By jove  does that pond water get cold!!! :o :-X
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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2015, 09:20:36 PM »
I was given this plant as an unknown. Grown from seed. One of several I think.
Clues; iris? white? New Zealand? tender?
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cm tape in background. Don't know how old it is, 1 or 2 years I guess.

Any ideas? Think it may not like the 6C minimum it's getting at present in my greenhouse, but may have been indoors before I had it.
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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2015, 11:12:39 PM »
Quote from: brianw on November 24, 2015, 09:20:36 PM
I was given this plant as an unknown. Grown from seed. One of several I think.
Clues; iris? white? New Zealand? tender?
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cm tape in background. Don't know how old it is, 1 or 2 years I guess.

Any ideas? Think it may not like the 6C minimum it's getting at present in my greenhouse, but may have been indoors before I had it.

Hello Brian --suggest try Arthropodium cirratum ,(Renga renga lily),......

Cheers Dave.
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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2015, 07:57:28 AM »
I sent a big bag of seeds to the seed exchange last year. Will tolerate ground frost, but is not fully hardy.
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« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2015, 08:01:24 AM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on November 25, 2015, 07:57:28 AM
I sent a big bag of seeds to the seed exchange last year. Will tolerate ground frost, but is not fully hardy.

Even the clumps I rescued from a clients garden that I placed under the bush canopy here, suffered from last seasons frost .They are just coming away again now.
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« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2015, 10:03:57 AM »
It is used a lot in municipal beds around car parks and building here in Auckland. Not found naturally in the southern half of the South Island.
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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2015, 02:50:05 PM »
Sent seed of a pink form to AGCBC seedex this autumn.

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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2015, 09:07:57 PM »
Thanks all. Not a plant I can recall seeing before.
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Re: What's this please?
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2015, 10:54:22 AM »
These were around a few years ago in pots in the garden centres and sold as hardy.
Needless to say they did not survive,
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