I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home


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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:29:27 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2010-06-29 16:00:52 +0100, ®óñ© © ²°¹° said:




I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home

You have to open a Google account and register to see it. I don't know
that everyone would want to do that so you might get more responses if
you use some like tinypic.

Ok, I'll try it later, cheers


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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:29:27 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2010-06-29 16:00:52 +0100, ®óñ© © ²°¹° said:




I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home

You have to open a Google account and register to see it. I don't know
that everyone would want to do that so you might get more responses if
you use some like tinypic.


OK Try this please.

(I'll get the hang of it sometime)


http://tinypic.com/4duk80nt


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"®óñ© © ²°¹°" wrote
Sacha wrote:
®óñ© © ²°¹° said:
I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home

You have to open a Google account and register to see it. I don't know
that everyone would want to do that so you might get more responses if
you use some like tinypic.


OK Try this please.

(I'll get the hang of it sometime)


http://tinypic.com/4duk80nt

Looks like an Eryngium

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In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:29:27 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2010-06-29 16:00:52 +0100, ®óñ© © ²°¹° said:




I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home

You have to open a Google account and register to see it. I don't know
that everyone would want to do that so you might get more responses if
you use some like tinypic.


OK Try this please.

(I'll get the hang of it sometime)


http://tinypic.com/4duk80nt

It's an Eryngium. No doubt someone will be along to tell you which one.
(I'd guess at Eryngium variifolium.)
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:00:37 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:



"®óñ© © ²°¹°" wrote
Sacha wrote:
®óñ© © ²°¹° said:
I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home

You have to open a Google account and register to see it. I don't know
that everyone would want to do that so you might get more responses if
you use some like tinypic.


OK Try this please.

(I'll get the hang of it sometime)


http://tinypic.com/4duk80nt

Looks like an Eryngium

Thanks


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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:05:33 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:29:27 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2010-06-29 16:00:52 +0100, ®óñ© © ²°¹° said:




I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up in a
rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/home

You have to open a Google account and register to see it. I don't know
that everyone would want to do that so you might get more responses if
you use some like tinypic.


OK Try this please.

(I'll get the hang of it sometime)


http://tinypic.com/4duk80nt

It's an Eryngium. No doubt someone will be along to tell you which one.
(I'd guess at Eryngium variifolium.)



Thanks


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It looks as if it might be from checking pics on line.

If it is I should pot some up and put them on eBay as thay are selling at the nurseries for around £7 a plant.

I don't think that was the problem - the problem was that he'd given us the link to the picasaweb home page, rather than the link to his own pic. I've seen other people's pics on picasaweb without having to register.

It's Eryngium alpinum.

'Miss Wilmott's Ghost' is an old/invalid name for E. giganteum btw, and your plant is most definitely not that.

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:32:48 +0100, Anne Welsh Jackson
wrote:

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I should know this blue flower of course. It has been coming up
in a rough border for at least 4 years, but never been this good.

Lucky you! I can't get this to grow in my garden, and
I've been trying for years...

OK Try this please.
(I'll get the hang of it sometime)

http://tinypic.com/4duk80nt

It's an Eryngium, don't know which one...

I seem to remember the management picking it somewhere labeled as an
unspecified generic "sea holly"


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That was because you were on the home page, rather than on the OP's album. It invited you to sign in, or you could also click on any of the publicly available albums.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 00:46:25 +0100, Anne Welsh Jackson
wrote:

®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:32:48 +0100, Anne Welsh Jackson
wrote:


It's an Eryngium, don't know which one...

I seem to remember the management picking it somewhere labeled as an
unspecified generic "sea holly"

That's the common name. We don't do "common names" in here... ;-)

Well I do.

I'm common, me.


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We do. But there are good reasons not to - here, for example, referring to it as 'sea holly' may lead people to think it's the same as the sea holly that grows around UK coasts, whereas it's a different species (although of the same genus).