On Tue, 08 May 2012 14:59:27 -0400, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 5/8/2012 2:13 PM, Janet wrote:
In , says...
On 2012-05-08 17:50:57 +0100, Pam said:
wrote:
Please can somebody help me identify this plant. It has been in our beds
since we moved in over a year ago and I cannot find it in any garden
centres etc.
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I would say it is the alpine alchemilla mollis.

With a shiny leaf and a white edge to it? A. mollis isn't sharply
divided in that way, it's grey-green, 'felted', not shiny.

But alchemilla alpina is.

http://www.henriettesherbal.com/pict...emilla-alpina-
4.htm

Yes, that's what it looks like to me, too. I have loads of it in my
garden. Unfortunately, I also have that other alchemilla, which seems to
have a plan for world domination.

Anne Wareham has a large patch of alchemilla mollis at her garden (The
Vedw or Veddw depending on your spelling) and makes a feature of it.
It's good ground cover and weed supressant (if you don't let it become
a weed itself). Enjoy the flowers and then swipe with the hedge
trimmer before it sets seed. I have kept it easily confined to three
designated bits of my garden by this approach.

If you want to encounter a plant with world domination tendencies,
allow me to send you some himalayan balsam seeds! Alchemilla is tame
(even comatose, indeed deceased) by comparison.

Cheers, Jake
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