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Plant ID please - Monty's Bid Dreams

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Hi

Can anyone recognise the tall perennial with pink flower spikes in the garden centre that the neighbours visited in this weeks Big Dreams please.

It looked like a willowherb and the name sounded something like comerion but I've searched and searched and can't come up with anything.

Your help would be appreciated.

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Camassia?

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Oops, missed the word 'pink'! Not camassia.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I didn't see the programme but Chamerion is willowherb



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,142

    Yes Nut - it was Chamerion angustifolium. 

    I was doing other stuff while the programme was on so wasn't totally focussed but I think they bought the white version http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/chamerion-angustifolium-album/classid.2000016472/

     


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    aka rosebay willow herb. The white one goes as mad as the pinkimage

    Pretty though. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • UnknownUnknown

    That's what I was worried about nutcutlet ....... but Sarah Raven gives willowherb as Epilobium so I didn't think it was that ....... it was very bee'd up image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    yes, it's called epilobium. Not sure which name superceded whichimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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