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Can anyone identify this?!
I don't think it's a grass - despite its appearance! The label I keep in the pot has faded :-( I want to know what it is so I can divide it into other pots if possible.
I seem to remember it being in the iris or lily family?! But I'm probably completely wrong and it is a grass!!
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It looks a bit like Pheasant Grass.
Just looked that up - scientific name of that is 'Anemanthele'. I'm pretty good with remembering those tbh and that doesn't ring a bell...
Thsnks though!
Libertia peregrinans?
not the Anemanthele,
I've never seen that hairy stuff on any of my libertias but otherwise looks likely
In the sticks near Peterborough
Don't recognise either of those names either, so don't think it's them?!
The hairy stuff is where the red the leaves have been stripped back by bad treatment on my part and by the ant colony that has established itself in the pot!
the leaves are normally much redder than they are now...
Guess I'll have to just keep going back to the garden centre I bought it from in the hope of seeing it again.
Last edited: 14 May 2017 23:24:50
Hi again Bodj. As you say that the leaves are normally much redder than that, could it be the Japanese Blood grass - Imperata cylindrica Red Baron?
No, not that either, I'm afraid! I've got that elsewhere in the garden...
I'm just going to hang around the garden centre at every opportunity and see if it comes back into stock...
Tee hee - just try not to look too suspicious!
Pennisetum x advena Rubrum??????
Last edited: 15 May 2017 08:09:02
might it be a rather poorly carex pendula?
It's definitely not looking its best but I know it's not Carex. I've tried online plant identifiers too...