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Any help on this please

Chris EvansChris Evans Posts: 4
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Hi all, I'm new here, I love gardening, I don't really have much of a clue what I'm doing, I just seem to throw things in and hope for the best, I love Dhalia though and can't wait till July/Aug to see my Dhalia Vulkan again, any way i was wondering if some of you nice people can help, I have a friend up in Scarborough who has just moved into a new house, and he's asked me if I could identify this for him, I couldn't and have no idea what it is, can anyone here help,

Its planted in sandy soil he tells me, and a few of them about, he didn't know wheter it was somekind of orchid, by I'm not so sure..Any help please.

Chris

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Is this in flower now Chris?



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Chris EvansChris Evans Posts: 4

    Im not sure Nutcutlet, I think its just starting out as he's only just moved in ( March/April) and he's not mentioned it before image

  • hypercharleyfarleyhypercharleyfarley Posts: 345

    I think it could be butterbur.

  • Chris EvansChris Evans Posts: 4

    Yeah you could be right , I've just googled it and the pics are very similar, you absolute star Charley Farley imageimage

     

  • TootsietimTootsietim Posts: 178

    I think you are right, butterbur generally comes up with the flowers first, and then the large leaves follow a little later.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    That's what I was thinking but hoped I was wrong. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Woodgreen wonderboyWoodgreen wonderboy Posts: 2,322

    Alien invader from planet Zog...don't go near.....

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Too late for Chris's friend I fear



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,109

    I just love Butterbur - I think it's gorgeous - ok so it spreads, but if you're lucky enough to have lots of room and a wild patch it's fabulous - the bees love it in early spring and as you said, it looks amazing.  

    There used to be so much of it around when I was a child, but I don't see it so much any more - those huge leaves we used to use as sunshades or umbrellas - back in the 'olden days' the leaves were used to wrap butter in to keep it cool - hence it's name.  


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





  • Chris EvansChris Evans Posts: 4

    Alien invader ?? Is it poisonous then Woodgreen wonderboy, obviously i'll have to let him know

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