If you were in Britain, then I would say it was Kenilworth Ivy or Toadflax. Proper name is Cymbalaria muralis.
Would agree with that id, Beautiful flower!
Just had a reply from an expert on Bulbs. He thinks it is Brodiaea pallida. However, I have never bought or grown from seed this one, BUT a long...
The leaf looks like that of Ricinus communis, the Castor oil plant and extremely poisonous it is too!
I am still waiting for a bulb expert to agree or disagree with my id. Their common name is 'Glory of the Snow' so you can see when the normally...
After doing a lot of searching I have come to the conclusion that it is a Chionodoxa luciliae, flowering at totally the wrong time and in a place...
Found this flowering the Alpine House. No label and I do not remember planting it. Certain it is a bulb, if only because of the strap like leaves....
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Berghill/July07/ Sorry about that.
Feel a bit guilty in some ways, showing these, when so many people have suffered so much damage with the weather. We have been very lucky and...
If it is one of the Allium family and it certainly loks and sounds like one, then even if it is not garlic it is edible. They might be very...
There is a plant in Britain, nicknamed Miss Wilmott's Ghost. She used to sprinkle the seeds in all the gardens she visited. It sprang up after...
Yesterday, just as I was getting fed up with weeding, we had a visit from an old friend. So, down with the tools, off with the gloves and a stroll...
We get lots of these in the garden, but I have never seen this happening before. [img] And then today the parents were teaching baby how to feed...
They usually produce lots of offsets first.
Almost impossible to give Sempervivums too much sun, they are cold climate cacti! (loosely). They usually suufer only if they are too wet rather...
Sorry Toni, your post arrived in between my seeing Glendann's pictures and managing to write an answer. The one's in your pics are indeed...
Ah, I would say that they are in fact not Sempervivums, they look more like Echeveria to me. Or Sedum or Graptoveria or one or two other things....
Semps usually do far better when planted out. Certainly mine have. In what way are they doing badly? The old way of planting them on roofs was to...
Thanks folks. Funny really how photos make a place look bigger than it is, though the area is not small, just about 3/4 of an acre. Size is...
Well, here we go again. You are invited to take a walk round the garden as it was on the 1st of June 2007. There are a lot of pictures because I...
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