Looking for a Name Please :-)
By Greenthumb
28 Sep, 2012
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This beauty I found along the river just along the border of the preserve. I do not believe it is native, and to me it looks like bergenia of some sort, but I have never seen it. Since it is just on the preserve edge, I feel it will be my duty to remove it from that location. :-) Couldn't kill such a lovely thing, so I think it will have to come home with me.
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I'm still not sure, Thank you Bik. I left no size reference, the flower stalks are almost 16 inches. So it is a big plant, larger than most saxifraga. I was thinking in the bergenia family but I'm coming up with nothing on searches.
10 Oct, 2012
bergenias are saxifragas.
try in ''THE SAXIFRAGE SOCIETY''
11 Oct, 2012
looks like more of a saxifraga niponica or a hybrid of it.??
is it expensive to send me a pice of rhizom some time?
11 Oct, 2012
This I found in the woods banking a national preserve. I must get some as it is so large. Once I've got it more established, maybe then I could share. :-)
11 Oct, 2012
thats good ok
11 Oct, 2012
love the swirl of the leaf at the petiole.
what is the blue flower in the background? you really hit the motherlode, Gt!
13 Oct, 2012
I know Lori. What a beauty! The blue in the back is mertensia, our common bluebell. I've got large clumps to encourage here in the new garden.
13 Oct, 2012
Lucky you! :-)
15 Oct, 2012
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get it now!!!
it looks like saxifraga also
10 Oct, 2012