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Please Help Identify Plant?

extremedancelondonextremedancelondon Posts: 3
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Hi there, just signed-up this morning. We are avid gardeners and love the show but we have a plant that we cannot seem to identify? Can't even find pics/info on-line looking for 'thistle-looking plant' ? Any advice would be much appreciated :)
A.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @extremedancelondon 😊 hello and welcome. 

    Can we have a look at the leaves please?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • extremedancelondonextremedancelondon Posts: 3
    Dovefromabove said:
    @extremedancelondon 😊 hello and welcome. 

    Can we have a look at the leaves please?
    Hi Dovefromabove,
    Here you go, thnks :)

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I'm guessing some kind of cirsium, but that's as far as it goes  :)
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    How big is it?  Tall enough for a globe artichoke or a cardoon?
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    It looks very like Centaurea cuneifolia subsp pallida as shown in Roger Phillips Perennials vol 2. But I cannot find another reference to it yet. Can anyone else?
    East Anglia
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Found it!  Otherwise known as Centaurea ‘ Pulchra Major’ 
    East Anglia
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well done Asarum!  🎖 

    Looks like it has a new name now http://www.orcharddene.co.uk/plant-detail-pulchramajor.php

    🤔 it might be just what I need at the sunny end of the  westfacing border 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • extremedancelondonextremedancelondon Posts: 3
    Asarum said:
    Found it!  Otherwise known as Centaurea ‘ Pulchra Major’ 
    Thank you Asarum :) that detective work is truly appreciated as it was driving us bananas! And Dovefromabove, it is a lovely plant, the tops are hard and almost popcorn-like so it looks great with or wothout the purple decorations.. but it deff looks like a thistle, doesn't it! :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The goldfinches are all over the seedheads of my Centaurea Montana ... I bet they’d love that big one. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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