This is wilting in the heat so I'm wondering with big glossy leaves if this is a shade loving plant. I bought it from a garden visit last year and lost the label on the way home so was waiting for it to flower to identify it but it's struggling in the heat.
It's a plant I'm very fond of, in the right setting - but you paid money for it??? I'm sure there are plenty of people on here who would have given you some by the bucket-load ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't think it is cuckoo pint, I have one to compare. This is purple veined and doesn't have the hood in the middle, it looks more like cabbage or rhubarb family
This is wilting in the heat so I'm wondering with big glossy leaves if this is a shade loving plant. I bought it from a garden visit last year and lost the label on the way home so was waiting for it to flower to identify it but it's struggling in the heat.
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It is Cuckoo Pint, Arum maculatum, which does prefer damp shade.
Ah. Maybe the thing I bought died then? I have CP all over the garden but I didn't recognise this as it. Green bin it is for this then!
Oh I forgot to say thank you Alan.
Hi TetleyT. The leaves look very similar to those of Arum maculatum - which is a woodland plant.
Ha ha. Only just seen Alan's response!
It's a plant I'm very fond of, in the right setting - but you paid money for it??? I'm sure there are plenty of people on here who would have given you some by the bucket-load ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have you got any eryngiums there?
In the sticks near Peterborough