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Looking for a Name Please  :-)

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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bik
Bik
 

get it now!!!
it looks like saxifraga also

10 Oct, 2012

 

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

bik
Bik
 

bergenias are saxifragas.
try in ''THE SAXIFRAGE SOCIETY''

11 Oct, 2012

bik
Bik
 

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

bik
Bik
 

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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