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No idea what it is called - Karensue will know.


No idea what it is called - Karensue will know.

I made a little alpine bed - it has been there for a few years but without much in it so added some alpines, took cuttings from my sink gardens and bought some new plants to add also.



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Well I'm pretty sure its an alpine type sysrinchium Olive, but don't know the variety. It looks happy there in that gravel bed :-)

17 Jun, 2013

 

Poppy, I agree. :) Sisyrinchium I think.

17 Jun, 2013

 

Sysirinchium? lol!

17 Jun, 2013

 

thanks girls, I have had a yellow one for years and think you have this one or did have this one Karen think it was you. It is a lovely little flower :O)

17 Jun, 2013

 

I do have this..a bigger one though I think...in my border. It's just flowering now, same as yours!

17 Jun, 2013

 

ah that is where I saw it then. lol knew I had seen one like it somewhere.

17 Jun, 2013

 

Lol Karen - sorry about the spelling. I just bought one of these little ones and its now in my little alpine planter. Im new to alpines but they are growing on me very rapidly.

17 Jun, 2013

 

I hate these long names too, I can never remember them.lol :O) don't need to have had a drink or two before trying to pronounce them either. lol :O)

17 Jun, 2013

 

Yes correct identification I bought these last year for the rockery in both Mauve and Yellow delightful little plants;0)

17 Jun, 2013



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