Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: spottymint on July 01, 2014, 17:48
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Hi
Can anyone identify this plant ?
It was about 12" high, house leek/succulent leaves with this flower spike.
(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm265/spottymint/Mobile%20Uploads/oldwardenplant_zpsa0b2b70f.jpg) (http://s298.photobucket.com/user/spottymint/media/Mobile%20Uploads/oldwardenplant_zpsa0b2b70f.jpg.html)
Many thanks, Spotty.
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Maybe a Spider's Houseleek - Sempervivum arachnoideum :unsure:
Halfway down the page here
http://dangergarden.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/bloomday-june-2011.html
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Good guess, but it the pic's on goog look too small.
I didn't notice any rosettes at the base and the stem, was about 12" tall and as thick as a cucumber. It was very large, not shown by the picture.
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How about a pic of the plant, rather than just the flower stalk, then ;)
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Not possible, taken in Bedfordshire, I'm in Hampshire !
It was just a plant I saw when visiting Old Warden air show on Sunday, the bottom of the plant was surrounded by long grass, hence just the big stalk.
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It is definitely a sempervivum of some sort: their flower heads are very distinctive in style.
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It is definitely a sempervivum of some sort: their flower heads are very distinctive in style.
Yes very much so :)
The mother rosette tends to wither and die away as the flower stalk grows, so there may not have been much of the base of the plant to look at.
I have sempervivums growing in a couple of pots and end up with holes whenever one decides to flower. Luckily they transplant well, so I just move a baby from the edge into the gap :)
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Many thanks, just wondered what it was really.
Just seemed to be a strange plant just ambling along wild on an old airfield.
I got some strange looks when I photographed some Flanders and opium poppies on some old soil, they had dumped at the side.
A woman taking flower photo's at an airshow :ohmy: ! When all the men are walking around with the Hubble telescope taking pictures of Planes !