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Melittis 'Royal Velvet Distinction' (For my File)

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By Siris


Melittis 'Royal Velvet Distinction' (For my File) (Melittis melissophyllum (Bastard Balm))

An easy to grow perennial with honey-scented foliage apparently, attracts bees and butterflies. Flowers a bit paler than the pictures, but it is only young.



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A new one to me :)

13 May, 2018

 

Thats a pretty one.

13 May, 2018

 

An me too till this winter, when I was browsing catalogues.

14 May, 2018

 

It's fatal, I do it all the time, I think whoo that's nice and it gets added to the wishlist

16 May, 2018

 

More new flowers today and they are more vividly coloured, more like the catalogue pics.

16 May, 2018

 

Cute Siris!

17 May, 2018



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