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Title: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: mark smyth on August 07, 2011, 08:47:49 PM
Does everyone lust as much as me for plants growing in other people's gardens? I think I have a serious disease

What's this Eryngium?
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Lori S. on August 07, 2011, 08:51:13 PM
Eryngium giganteum?
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on August 07, 2011, 08:54:38 PM
Mark,
Could it be Miss Wilmotts ghost

http://www.growsonyou.com/shop/product/36439
cheers
Mick
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: angie on August 07, 2011, 08:55:10 PM
Does everyone lust as much as me for plants growing in other people's gardens? I think I have a serious disease

What's this Eryngium?

No Mark I am the same   ;D  Its worse looking on this forum the amount of plants that I see and would love to have, is there any worse condition that we could have  ;)

Angie  :)
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: mark smyth on August 07, 2011, 09:08:45 PM
if it helps the plant was very short about half a football and I was on my knees to take the photo
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: fleurbleue on August 07, 2011, 09:17:03 PM
Eryngium maritimum, I think Mark  :)
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: mark smyth on August 07, 2011, 09:24:36 PM
and I think you are correct, Nicole
http://www.torrens.org.uk/FFF/plants/EryngiumMaritimum.html (http://www.torrens.org.uk/FFF/plants/EryngiumMaritimum.html)
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Brian Ellis on August 07, 2011, 10:12:22 PM
if it helps the plant was very short about half a football and I was on my knees to take the photo

In that case I am lusting after it too :D
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: angie on August 07, 2011, 10:20:49 PM
Mark I bought that plant when I was in Ireland, can't remember the name nursery but I do remember it was in the south. The man was really nice. I think he was American. I went away with a lot of nice plants and lots of seeds for free.

My E. Maritimum is small but has lots of flowers on it. I think it's real cute even though it's prickly.

Angie  :)
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Paddy Tobin on August 07, 2011, 10:23:10 PM
It grows at the seaside here.
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: mark smyth on August 07, 2011, 10:42:13 PM
It grows at the seaside here.

and I've just ordered seeds online. Could you look for fresh seeds for me?
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 07, 2011, 11:51:03 PM
It's a condition many of us suffer from Mark. You just have to eat a large piece of chocolate each time the symptoms appear.
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: mark smyth on August 08, 2011, 12:03:51 AM
Do you realise how many bars of finest chocolate I would need a day!
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 08, 2011, 01:06:57 AM
Then stay home and read a book. :D
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: Anthony Darby on August 08, 2011, 06:51:46 AM
Had a wee girl at the door selling bars of Cadbury's chocolate today, which is a fund raising thing here.
Title: Re: someone please stop me lusting for other people's plants - Eryngium
Post by: angie on August 08, 2011, 09:18:39 AM
Had a wee girl at the door selling bars of Cadbury's chocolate today, which is a fund raising thing here.

OK Anthony but you never said how many bars you bought.  ;D ;) I never buy much from the shops, would hate the till assistant to think how greedy I was so to think of someone coming to my door would be heaven.


Angie :)
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