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Jacksparrow
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by Jacksparrow » Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:12 pm
During family holidays to Cornwall I often admired these plants in people's gardens. There was something about the head of vibrant blue flowers but I assumed that they required a milder climate than my part of the midlands. At one point I purchased what I thought was a blue one from a nursery by imagine my disappointment that after a 12 month wait for a flower it turned out to be white and not very big like the Cornwall ones I'd seen. I put the idea on the back burner until one day two years while in Lidl I spotted they were selling small corms(

) in a packet for a quid which promised the much lusted after big blue blooms. I followed the planting instructions to the letter and waited and waited, watered, pampered, clearing all the competing weeds etc. My reward.............A single big flower

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greenfinch2
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by greenfinch2 » Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:59 pm
JS snap ,lovely last year no where to be found this year.

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Jacksparrow
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by Jacksparrow » Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:18 pm
greenfinch2 wrote:JS snap ,lovely last year no where to be found this year.

Oh dear. I hope mine is not a one time wonder.

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Willpar
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by Willpar » Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:58 am
They grow all over the Isles Of Scilly. Lovely flowers. The locals pot them up and try and sell to visitors.
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nuthatch
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by nuthatch » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:54 pm
Oh, I think we've got those in the garden - will have to check
