posted by Silvia Hoefnagels . Salix Tree @ 8:22 am
My name is Silvia (also known as SalixTree ), I live in the Irish countryside. I write and illustrate children's books. I like to garden, cross stitch, crochet, and read fantasy books.
Windywillow
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Mystery frilly bells
Here is one of my frilly bell flower plants, seen next to my drawing of it made a couple days back.
Some have said this is heuchera. I don't think it is, as heuchera has a different flowering stem structure. I really must try to find out what this is, I shall be googling a lot later.
*edit*
I think I found the name. It might be Tellima grandiflora. Found it right away on a plant identfier site: MountainNature.com
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5 Comments:
I agree you should continue with your sketches-they are very lovely-you are a quite talented artist.
Silva, I am so glad I came to your "garden" this morning.
I too have this plant growing wild near my home and recently plucked one from the forest to bring to my garden.
I was wondering what her name is.
I just love how delicate she is. Reminds me of a dainty hollyhock.
Your drawings are lovely.
I also like how you arranged the photo and the sketch side by side.
I wasn't aware that we could do that with blogger.
~ Becky
Silvia,I believe you are correct about the mystery plant being a Tellima grandiflora
I did a Google image search and compared to your picture. I have never seen these flowers before.
Interesting how the edge of each flower has a fringe edge.
Do you have it in full sun?
Good I.D. site...
Gloria, they are in a part of the garden which is in full sun. Although, here it's rare to actually get "full sun", as many days we have lots of clouds or rain.
I saw that this plant is meant to be in a shaded woodsy area, but it seems to be doing just fine where it is.
I'm glad you were able to ID the plant. When I saw the photo, I thought it might be something in the mallow family because the flower stalk reminded me of hollyhocks. Wrong again. Botany can be so humbling :-)
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