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David King

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What is this?
« on: August 01, 2012, 10:02:52 AM »
Visited Beth Chatto's garden yesterday and saw this growing in one of the ponds.  Anyone know what it is?
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 10:05:07 AM »
No idea! Very elegant isn't it?
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2012, 10:19:25 AM »
Pickerel?
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2012, 10:29:42 AM »
Oh! The American plant, Pontederia cordata ?  Didn't twig that without the fully developed flower spike. :-[  I didn't know they came from those lovely bracts.
The first of my lessons for  today. :)  8)
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2012, 11:05:00 AM »
Cheers Maggi, we were quite taken by it.  Trust Beth Chatto to have plants we don't know!
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 11:17:54 AM »
Pickled what ???  ;D
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 11:25:22 AM »
Pontederia cordata:are you quite sure?I just went to the garden to have a look and they don't look like the picture.Also the top of the leaves of those in the garden are a bit more rounded.
May be another sp of Pontederia?
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2012, 12:55:29 PM »
I suppose it's Thalia dealbata.
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 01:47:14 PM »
Thomas, you are correct I think.  Googling Thalia dealbata Beth Chatto Gardens gets a picture of it exactly where we saw it.  Many thanks ;D
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2012, 01:59:23 PM »
Well done, John and Thomas...... close observation skills to the fore!


http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+0105+0472   for the Pontederia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/gallery/2008_53_mon.shtml?select=02   for the Thalia

  Busy day for lessons this!  :D
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2012, 02:09:45 PM »
Definitely Thalia dealbata.  If you intend to grow it, bear in mind that it is similar to a Canna if it gets going happily and can increase quite healthily.  I've heard it called a blue water canna, but that was quite a few years ago.  I never did get one because I didn't have the space for it.  Pontederia is another that can take off prolifically if you aren't watching it closely.  ;)  Lovely blue flowers though.  I do still grow a white species of Pontederia, but I had to get rid of the blue after one piece was approaching a metre wide after 18 months and attempting to take over my pond.  I would still like to grow the Thalia one of these years, if I can manage to get some acreage somewhere (not likely to happen soon unfortunately!  ::)).

So good to see you got an answer so quick, David.  Isn't this forum just brilliant!!  8)
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2012, 02:42:51 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on August 01, 2012, 02:09:45 PM

So good to see you got an answer so quick, David.  Isn't this forum just brilliant!!  8)

Amazing. Where else could you do it?
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2012, 06:31:30 PM »
How hardy is Thalia dealbata?
On the site of a nursery:frost hardy
On the site of th RHS:H1 greenhouse
Who is right?
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2012, 07:38:09 PM »
Quote from: John85 on August 01, 2012, 06:31:30 PM
How hardy is Thalia dealbata?
On the site of a nursery:frost hardy
On the site of th RHS:H1 greenhouse
Who is right?

I don't know who is right but at Beth Chatto's garden there are several large clumps in the ponds and I cannot imagine that they are removed each year and therefore must stay in the water.  They may of course have some in pots just in case.
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Re: What is this?
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2012, 08:49:08 PM »
From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh living collection database, it seems to live in a glasshouse. :-\
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