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ID this flax plant, please?
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This fine flax needs balancing by the purchase of another one. What
should I be looking for?
http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/...urrent=flax.jpg
It's growing exceptionally well in a south-facing position here in this
garden, in Shropshire. And reminds me of how the only plants we
observed flourishing on the balcony on the 25th floor of a high-rise in
London were similar.
Thanks.
Eddy.
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| shazzbat 2008-03-24, 5:25 pm |
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"Eddy" <eddy.bentley@removeALLbutRESTvirgin.net> wrote in message
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> This fine flax needs balancing by the purchase of another one. What
> should I be looking for?
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A spade.
It is growing well, and It's easily big enough to split in two. Then you
know they'll both be the same, and you get to keep your money in your
pocket.
Steve
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| shazzbat wrote:
> It is growing well, and It's easily big enough to split in two. Then you
> know they'll both be the same, and you get to keep your money in your
> pocket.
Thanks, Steve. I did think of this but immediately rejected the idea
because I thought that to halve the thing would be to obviously halve
its somewhat circular shape. Now you're making me wonder if it might be
possible, once halved, to reposition both halves so that the split looks
the least obvious. If both halves, once planted, look odd, I wonder if
this kind of flax will regenerate its normal shape in time.
Eddy.
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| robert 2008-03-25, 5:25 pm |
| In message <vdTFj.6604$6R1.696@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net>, Eddy
<eddy.bentley@removeALLbutRESTvirgin.net> writes
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>This fine flax needs balancing by the purchase of another one. What
>should I be looking for?
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>http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/...on=view¤t
>=flax.jpg
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>It's growing exceptionally well in a south-facing position here in this
>garden, in Shropshire. And reminds me of how the only plants we
>observed flourishing on the balcony on the 25th floor of a high-rise in
>London were similar.
It is either a rather windswept basic tenax or possibly a basic
cookianum. It appears to have been in place for a few years but,
although it is a bit difficult to judge the height I would guess around
1 metre which would probably rule out the basic tenax.
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Robert
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| robert wrote:
> It is either a rather windswept basic tenax or possibly a basic
> cookianum. It appears to have been in place for a few years but,
> although it is a bit difficult to judge the height I would guess around
> 1 metre which would probably rule out the basic tenax.
http://www.habitas.org.uk/gardenflora/pcookianum.htm
Thanks, Robert. The Cookianum is as close as damn it. It'll do, and I
see they are available here in the UK - if we decide not to slice the
flax we have in half .
Eddy.
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