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Thalictrum ?

josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530


I was given this lovely plant (the picture doesn't do it justice) by a Freecycler who called it thalictrum, but I find there are many species.  When it was given to me, it had some small blue, very dainty flowers, but they were lost in transit.  I think it's T. delavayi, please can anyone confirm?

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Josusa47 - I'm not sure. I've got T. delavayi 'Hewitts Double' but it only flowers right at the top and it's about 3-4ft high at the moment. The flowers are absolutely beautiful, a cloud of tiny purple ones, giving a haze of purple - stunning against my golden stipa.
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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    It doesn’t look too much like my delaveyi (mine’s Hewitts Double too) which has darker leaves.

    I have another one that flowers early summer, thalictrum aquilegifolium .....could be that one?
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited August 2019
    It looks like a thalictrum, possibly a single form like T. dipterocarpum but without a pic of the flowers, identification is nigh on impossible.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited August 2019
    Not heard of Thalictrum dipterocarpum...so looked it up.RHS etc

    Thalictrum delaveyi is new/correct name...previously called Thalictrum dipterocarpum.

    https://dorsetperennials.co.uk/product/thalictrum-delavayi/




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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Thanks everyone.  
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I left it in the pot over winter, it regrew in spring and I've just planted it out.  No flowers yet but the foliage is beautiful.  It's in a shady spot, in a south-facing border; will this be OK?  RHS website says east or west and partial shade.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s finished flowering now but next year it will be lovely. Perfect place. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It should be fine @josusa47.  If it doesn't get too tall it may be thalictrum aquilegifolium - French meadow rue.

    I bought one years ago in Belgium, named as delavayii but it grew to almost 3 metres tall so I assumed it was an Elin mislabelled.     Here, I've bought an aquilegifolium and the same thing has happened!   Gorgeous foliage and then tall, thick, purpley flower stems topped with a froth of lilac/purple buds that open to show long creamy stamens.  I love it.   
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    They're lovely plants worth growing just for the foliage then the beautiful little showers of flowers appear.
    T. delavayii I've had for many years


    Billericay - Essex

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I had a T. delavayi in a pot on the front yard, I heard a couple of my neighbours admiring it several times. After it had done flowering I cut it back, and one of them caught me in the street and said 'what happened to your lovely tree?' It took me a while to work out what they meant lol.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
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