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Audrey OsborneAudrey Osborne Posts: 14
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Can anyone help please? I bought this about 5 years ago and have lost the label and can't remember what it's called............just wondered whether there's anyone out there might be able to help  :)

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  • Songbird-1Songbird-1 Posts: 4,023
    Looks like our Sobaria Sorbifolia @Audrey Osborne, lovely plant.👍
  • punkdocpunkdoc Sheffield, Derbyshire border.Posts: 11,346
    I would agree.
    He calls her the chocolate girl
    Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
    She knows she's the chocolate girl
    Cause she's broken up and swallowed
    And wrapped in bits of silver
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Tyne & Wear Green Belt Posts: 1,566
    Yep.  I got one last year.  Lovely and fern like.  Apparently they sucker but none so far for me.  They have some next to the car park in a local park and they seem to have taken over.


  • punkdocpunkdoc Sheffield, Derbyshire border.Posts: 11,346
    edited 12 May
    Once established they are prolific suckerers [ is that a word? ], but i still like them. I have grown several from the suckers of the original.
    He calls her the chocolate girl
    Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
    She knows she's the chocolate girl
    Cause she's broken up and swallowed
    And wrapped in bits of silver
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Tyne & Wear Green Belt Posts: 1,566
    punkdoc said:
    Once established they are prolific suckerers [ is that a word/ ], but i still like them. I have grown several from the suckers of the original.

    I don't mind if it does become a suckerer (I'm using it now).
  • Songbird-1Songbird-1 Posts: 4,023
    Ours is a suckerer too😉😂....get them out quick because they do have strong suckerer roots!
  • punkdocpunkdoc Sheffield, Derbyshire border.Posts: 11,346
    Well, if it wasn't a word, it is now.
    He calls her the chocolate girl
    Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
    She knows she's the chocolate girl
    Cause she's broken up and swallowed
    And wrapped in bits of silver
  • Bee witchedBee witched Scottish BordersPosts: 887
    It certainly does try for world domination.
    I've got Sorbaria 'Sem' ... and it's in a very large pot which is buried in a border.

    At least twice a year I circumnavigate the pot with a sharp spade and sever the runners and pull them all out.

    I do like it, especially in spring, but I wouldn't plant one without some sort of restriction ... and I've got a large garden.

    Bee x
    Bees must gather nectar from two million flowers to make one pound of honey   
  • Audrey OsborneAudrey Osborne Posts: 14
    Thanks everyone for helping.........I now remember why I kept it in a pot  :)
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