On 20/06/2012 15:51, Sheila wrote:
A friend passed a branch of this very beautiful plant, the lady in the
garden centre at first thought it was a grass, then had second thoughts,
and thought it may be a variety of Astilbe. Your views would be
appreciated, thanks,

Sheila.

http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=IMAG0867.jpg




Hi Sheila,

It's just like a plant I grow in my garden. I bought seeds for
Meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria. It is very beautiful.
However, I googled for meadowsweet just to be sure I'd got the name
right but the pics on line don't look quite like mine, so I wonder if I
was sent the wrong seed?? It looks, as Sacha says, a lot like Aruncus.
I don't think it's an Astilbe.

I have to say I've seen very mixed images for Meadowsweet, so it could
still be that.

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Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay