« on: September 26, 2011, 09:37:57 PM »
Carlina pygmaea (red thistle) is one of those plants that you forget for most of the year, or at least I do.
...Until it gently says hello to the observant walker from its pathside haunts at this time of the year.
I have no desire to have it in my garden, but I appreciate it in its natural haunts.
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Mike
Geologist by Uni training, IT consultant, Referee for Viola for Botanical Society of the British Isles, commissioned author and photographer on Viola for RHS (Enc. of Perennials, The Garden, The Plantsman).
I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England