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Gardeners' World 2017 - Episode 14

alix.doarealix.doare Posts: 8
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hello everybody. i'm watching this wonderfull show on youtube as i'm french and a big fan of english gardening tv shows
(so please excuse my poor english, i'm in love with the language but i don't have any opportunity to practice, i hope i will now i'm on this forum)

At the very end of this  episode, Monty talks about a plant, but i can't understand the name of it ...i hear "selitrum" but i ca't find any plant with this name .
I found it really pretty and would like to know more about it .
Do any of you knows what it is ?
I'm looking forward to hearing from you

Alix
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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Could it have been Thalictrum @alix.doare ?  By the way your English is just fine so hello and hope you enjoy the forum  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • newbie77newbie77 Posts: 1,838
    Cant find it on YouTube. Can you post a link?
    South West London
  • alix.doarealix.doare Posts: 8
    hello ! thank you so much for your quick answer  ! this is it ...Thalictrum !!! thank you thank you !! merci !
  • alix.doarealix.doare Posts: 8
    here it is : https://youtu.be/SIRaEqKRRpQ
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There are several forms of thalictrum which grow to different heights.  I had a clump in my Belgian garden that were supposed to grow to about a metre but more than doubled that height and was probably Erin altho labelled as Delavayii.


    I have planted one here which seems to be heading the same way despite different soil and climate......
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • alix.doarealix.doare Posts: 8
    wonderfull , that is exactly what i'm looking for, a huge plant to put in the back of my mixed borders ... . I haven't seen those plants in shops where i live, nore in gardens i've visited ...
    i'm looking for it on line and i've found so far :
     T. delavayi ,
    T. aquilegifolium (i get that name because of the leafs looking like one of my favorite plant ... aquilegia ), 
    T.ankum,
     T.flavum ( maybe this is the yellow one i 've seen in the video)
    Now i'm reading about it, i found out that we call it Pigamon in france and i remember reading about this in magazines
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    T.flavum is indeed the yellow one, with lovely glaucous blue foliage, a lovely plant.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • alix.doarealix.doare Posts: 8
    yes!!! i don't really like yellow flowers, unless it's a little glaucous (not sure about the way to say that) like alchemilla 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The one I have here is aquilegifolium I think.  It certainly has very aquilegia like leaves and then taller stems with masses of tiny purple flowers with frothy creamy centres.  Gorgeous.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited April 2020
    I would dearly love to grow these, but I believe they need damp soil, which I have none of.
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