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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Umbrian on May 21, 2012, 06:13:56 PM

Title: ID please IDd by Daisy as Libertia grandiflora
Post by: Umbrian on May 21, 2012, 06:13:56 PM

I saw these two varieties of the same plant recently and think they are Libertia? but am trawling way back in my memory! I think they might do well in Mediterranean climates and if so would be keen to have them

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Umbrian on May 21, 2012, 06:18:27 PM

Sorry! repeat! Hopefully here is other

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Daisy on May 21, 2012, 06:46:05 PM

It does look like Libertia grandiflora, but be warned. I had it in my garden in Cornwall and it became a absolute pest!
It seeded into everything, with gay abandon. :o
It used to take me hours just to clear it's offspring from just a small area.
It may behave differently in a mediterranean climate. Perhaps someone who has grown it in a dryer garden can tell you.
Daisy