At last my garden has perked up and has some colour. I hurriedly put this bunch together to take to a friend
The white flowers are perennial stocks, they smell divine! Also cerinthe, quaking grass, purple loosestrife, persicaria and nigella.
This delightful fairy-like plant was in my friend’s garden
Do you know what it is?
Apparently it self seeds well and I will definitely be getting some seed later on
But neither of us know it’s name.
Joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for In a Vase on Monday
Ravelry
Wild Daffodil 
Beautiful bouquet, but no clue what they are!
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Thank you Kathy. The mystery is solved they are Fringe Cups or Tellima Grandiflora. So good to have found out. 🙂
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I’m glad your “crew” helped you identify the mystery plant. Your little bouquet is charming. I love stock bit they’re so short-lived here that I haven’t even bothered planting any the last few years.
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It is a shame about the stocks – have you tried the perennial variety – it makes such a sturdy plant.
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Your mystery plant isTellima grandiflora and it does indeed seed around a bit! Your bunch of bits is so lovely – so much nicer to have a bunch picked from a garden than shop bought flowers
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Ta dah!!! I thought you would know Cathy, thank you. It is such a delicate, wild looking plant, I love it, I hope it will grow in my garden.
I do try to avoid commercially grown cut flowers as much as possible. My kids know to give me a plant rather than bought flowers.
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Taking flowers to a friend and coming back with a plant, fair exchange, but friendship isn’t only about that.
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There is a special bond between gardening friends isn’t there Noelle. 🙂
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A mystery! Hope one of your blogging friends can identify the plant. Lovely to have flowers blooming in the garden, isn’t it? Even my gardens in the woods are looking very nice.
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A bit of colour certainly perks things up a bit!
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Your flowers are wonderful. I’ve always loved stock. I can’t seem to get it grow in my garden. The cerinthe is lovely too.
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Thank you Susie. I am still finding out what does and doesn’t thrive in my garden – and in different parts of it.
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I can’t help with identification but the bouquet is lovely!
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Thank you – it looked even better in a vase later – but silly me, I forgot to take a photo.
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Whenever I write a post I remember I should have taken photos! The ‘before’ ones seem especially elusive!
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Is it a tiarella? very similar to heuchera but leaves less interesting.
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Ah, thank you Linda – that is a good suggestion. I’ll look it up.
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Found it!
https://dorsetperennials.co.uk/product/tellima-grandiflora/
related to both tiarella and heuchera.
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I can’t identify your plant but you have answered a question for me. The lovely, delicate grass with tiny,beetle-like beads I now know to be quaking grass so thank you for that. x
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Excellent – glad to be of service!
We call Quaking Grass ‘Whim Whams’ as that is what my friend (with the garden above) calls them, but I don’t know if that is a common name or not.
I love it and it has seeded itself with gay abandon in my garden – easy to weed out though.
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Plus, according to Wikipedia
Common name includes quaking-grass, common quaking grass, cow-quake, didder, dithering-grass, dodder-grass, doddering dillies, doddle-grass, earthquakes, jiggle-joggles, jockey-grass, lady’s-hair, maidenhair-grass, pearl grass, quakers, quakers-and-shakers, shaking-grass, tottergrass, wag-wantons
I’ve got to say – that last one is my favourite.
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What a Giggle! Yes – ‘wag-wantons’ – I bet there are a few of those tottering around in your corner of the county!
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Your mystery plant looks a lot like a heuchera. I’d have to Google to be sure as I’ve never seen one lying down and having a rest like yours is doing.
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I do see the resemblance to heuchera, but I don’t think it is. The mystery plant seeds itself all over the place and I don’t think heucheras do that.
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A beautiful bunch Sandra. Is that plant Heuchera? There are so many different ones. It has such pretty flowers!
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Hmmm – yes, I see the resemblance to Heuchera. The leaves are thicker than any of the other Heuchera’s I know, so I’m not sure, could be a relative though.
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I found Heuchera ‘Lime Marmalade’ online which does look very like it, but none of the photos show leaves growing on the flower stems like the one in my firend’s garden.
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Found it!
https://dorsetperennials.co.uk/product/tellima-grandiflora/
Related to both heuchera and tiarella apparently.
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Glad you could identify it and thank you for the link . I’ll take a closer look. 😃
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