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Plant ID please
SparklesJD
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What is this lovely plant please?
It did have (dead by the time we unearthed it) flowers on stems, but I pruned them off. The bamboo stick is behind it (not through it as it looks in the pic) and is staking something next to it.
Thanks.
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Looks like hellebore argutifolius (corsican hellebore) Sparkles. Did it have greeny flowers or were they too faded by the time you saw them?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have a vague memory of light green, yellow or possibly beige?! Sorry, not much help. It was so overgrown last year.
It's a sedum spectable
I agree with cotty
Common name around here is Ice Plant
Thanks all.
I like the foliage a lot, the flowers aren't that memorable by the looks of a quick google (and from experience!), but apparently the bees like them, so that's fab!
I've got one and the pink flowers are very worthwhile. They are in bud for weeks and look pretty and then open into a dark dusky pink and lure bees and butterflies. I leave the flower heads on over winter to protect the crown. It's just starting to shoot now and I'll be removing the dead flower heads at the end of April. Shoots are easily rooted in a glass of water, I plant my cuttings out no later than end of August.
Ta Erics Mum.
I love how compact and symmetrical it is, I might take some cuttings!
Yes, Sedum Spectabile - various shades of pinky brown according to variety - rich in nectar and loved by bees and butterflies
Love it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.