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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: colineddie1 on June 15, 2016, 11:40:37 PM

Title: Advice Please
Post by: colineddie1 on June 15, 2016, 11:40:37 PM

Can anyone help me out please - I am trying to find out the names of a low lichen or moss looking ground plant for troughs - when you press them they spring back but they look like a pad of stone or rock as it spreads - I cannot even remember where I saw them last - I have seen them at RHS in London before now though - can anyone help me please with name and photo so I can confirm this is what I am actually hunting

Title: Re: Advice Please
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 16, 2016, 05:50:49 AM

Raoulia, perhaps? The grey colour of some does give them the appearance of stone,
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Advice Please
Post by: ranunculus on June 16, 2016, 06:31:03 AM

Scleranthus biflorus or S. uniflorus (Google images will produce numerous results)

Title: Re: Advice Please
Post by: colineddie1 on June 16, 2016, 11:36:17 PM

Thank you so much - I will now go shopping  ;D they are both what I have seen and will do brilliantly in the troughs

Title: Re: Advice Please
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 17, 2016, 03:05:58 AM

Good kiwi plants, both of them. ;D