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ID this plant please

garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138
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Now this plant is flowering,I am not sure it is a heucera,Anyone with a positive id or ideas welcome

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 7,941

    Hi, Garden Geek!

    Could it be Saxifraga fortunei?

    "The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."  Rabindranath Tagore
  • garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138

    just googled,I would say you are spot on by the look of flowers,poor specimen bought at a charity shop as a heucera,i was quite impressed when i saw the delicate flowers.

                                        full marks on super rapid id thanks.

  • garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138

    Thanks tetley,it is not a tiarelle,the flower shape is spot on saxifraga fortunei.good suggestion on tiarelle though

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 7,941

    I've got one myself, GG.  It always helps with ID!  image

    "The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."  Rabindranath Tagore
  • garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138

    you are still a star,best possible way to id,Just got to multiply it now, As i really like it

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 7,941

    Mine is growing in quite dense shade.  It just puts on another rosette or two each year.  And yes, the flowers are quite beautiful!  image

    "The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."  Rabindranath Tagore
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,984

    Are these hardy? I've never tried them because I thought they were notimage

    The only really healthy looking ones I've seen are lurking under the GH shelving in a friend's nursery



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,818

    Not hardy for me but a friend grows some in an unheated greenhouse they built specially for alpines and succulents and which has two chairs and a wine shelf so they can go and sit in winter and enjoy their garden.

     

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,984

    Thank obelixx. We may not be as cold as you but I don't think this one is for me. 

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,818

    I suspect it's the damp that does it more harm.  I did have some and grew them in what I thought was a well drained spot but then we had a mildish wet winter and that was that.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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