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Old 18-07-2012, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Hannah2012 View Post
Hello, a few years ago i was given some cuttings of a plant. The first year they grew a little,but no flowers.

In winter the plant dies back and goes brown but this year has grown massive, got lots of tiny purple blue coloured buds but the buds are sort of falling from their shells to the floor and not flowering. I noticed the bees enjoy the plants and seem to go for the bud but as i say the buds just drop out of the shell they are in.

The buds are tiny and the plant has grown large this year, about 1 metre, last year was about 30cm but again it didn't flower.

I am not sure what plant it is, and why it won't flower. I got it from a relative who can't remember giving it me as she is elderly but i remember she had some in pots and it had lots of blue purple coloured flowers. She no longer has it.

Can anybody help!
Yes indeed. Please follow these 3 simple steps, and then you will find out what it is.
(1) Take some digital pictures, both whole plant and close up of parts of it.
(2) Post them on a picture sharing website like Flickr.
(3) Post here saying "what is this" and give us a link to the pictures.
That should be an effective method of getting an id.