On 25/4/08 20:50, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote:


In article ,
"Bob Hobden" writes:
| "Sacha" wrote
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| What a fantastic colour - I want that. I wonder if it's available in
| UK.......
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| http://www.ingwersen.co.uk/Erinacea%20anthyllis.htm

My guess is that it would be best grown in a pot full of aggregate
on the south side of a house in a partial rain shadow.

From where and how it was growing in the wild, none of frost, drought
or cats would worry it at all :-)

It's stunning, Nick. Did you not bring a few bits home with you?! Tsk! In
a way it reminds me of an Eryngium that we saw growing in the Trodos
mountains of Cyprus. The blue was so intense that they looked just as if
they'd been spray-painted. I have never before, or since, seen anything
like them.


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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'