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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: David Nicholson on October 13, 2015, 04:53:58 PM

Title: What's this please?
Post by: David Nicholson on October 13, 2015, 04:53:58 PM: Growing in a pond in the Dartington Hall gardens. Can anyone give it a name please?
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Maggi Young on October 13, 2015, 05:54:37 PM: That's one of my favourite pond plants, David - Water Hawthorn - Aponogeton distachyos - if you could get your nose to it, you'd find it sweetly scented.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: David Nicholson on October 13, 2015, 07:00:26 PM: Cheers Maggi, if I'd had me wellies........ ;D
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Post by: Maggi Young on October 13, 2015, 07:53:19 PM: I am only grateful that no-one has ever had a camera around when I'm dangling myself over the pond to smell the flowers, David ::) By jove does that pond water get cold!!! :o :-X
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: brianw on November 24, 2015, 09:20:36 PM: I was given this plant as an unknown. Grown from seed. One of several I think.
Clues; iris? white? New Zealand? tender?
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cm tape in background. Don't know how old it is, 1 or 2 years I guess.

Any ideas? Think it may not like the 6C minimum it's getting at present in my greenhouse, but may have been indoors before I had it.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: t00lie on November 24, 2015, 11:12:39 PM: Quote from: brianw on November 24, 2015, 09:20:36 PM
I was given this plant as an unknown. Grown from seed. One of several I think.
Clues; iris? white? New Zealand? tender?
(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)
cm tape in background. Don't know how old it is, 1 or 2 years I guess.

Any ideas? Think it may not like the 6C minimum it's getting at present in my greenhouse, but may have been indoors before I had it.

Hello Brian --suggest try Arthropodium cirratum ,(Renga renga lily),......

Cheers Dave.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 25, 2015, 07:57:28 AM: I sent a big bag of seeds to the seed exchange last year. Will tolerate ground frost, but is not fully hardy.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: t00lie on November 25, 2015, 08:01:24 AM: Quote from: Anthony Darby on November 25, 2015, 07:57:28 AM
I sent a big bag of seeds to the seed exchange last year. Will tolerate ground frost, but is not fully hardy.

Even the clumps I rescued from a clients garden that I placed under the bush canopy here, suffered from last seasons frost .They are just coming away again now.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 25, 2015, 10:03:57 AM: It is used a lot in municipal beds around car parks and building here in Auckland. Not found naturally in the southern half of the South Island.
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Post by: johnw on November 25, 2015, 02:50:05 PM: Sent seed of a pink form to AGCBC seedex this autumn.

john
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: brianw on November 25, 2015, 09:07:57 PM: Thanks all. Not a plant I can recall seeing before.
Title: Re: What's this please?
Post by: monocotman on November 26, 2015, 10:54:22 AM: These were around a few years ago in pots in the garden centres and sold as hardy.
Needless to say they did not survive,
David