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Plant ID - spotted at Chelsea
Was lucky enough to be taken to Chelsea yesterday and rather liked the pinkish-flowered plant in the centre of this photo. It was in the Listening Garden (BBC Radio 2 Zoe Ball - designed by James Alexander Sinclair). The young man on duty in the garden wasn't able to tell me what it was (this happened several times at several different gardens - I began to wonder what the attendants were there for apart from preventing damage). I can't find a planting list online. Wondered if anybody would be able to recognise it from this photo, It has the kind of leaves which wrap around the stem so the stem seems to be growing up through the middle of them.
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Wish I could help Pegletbee but the picture is too indistinct.
Alas, I could not get any closer to it! On my computer I can right click on the pic in the forum post and open the image in a new tab and then enlarge it slightly, which does help a bit. But if nobody can see it I will try to post a cropped and enlarged version tomorrow.
This may be a bit of a long shot but could it be bupleurum longifolium??
Well done Hogweed you clever thing! Looked it up on Google images and found a pic showing the leaves, which clinches it. Thank you very much.
Pretty sure Sarah Raven sells it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Plant allowances are only a guide, not an absolute rule.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Anyway as everyone knows rules are meant to be broken ?
Bit of a seed weed here for us.
Hall Farm at Kinnerley sell it too.