Identification

[dm65]

I have a question for the green fingered woodies amongst us - I know its nothing to do with woodwork, but I got more replies a while back to a picture of some bugs than I did over a plank of Mahogany so I thought I'd give it a shot

A while back, a friend of mine found a plant in a Durham (I think) council flower bed and we've been trying to find out what it is - without any success at all

Can anyone tell me what the plant pictured below is called please

 

[CHJ]

Quaker Grass. (Briza media)

 

[dm65]

Cheers Chas - did you recognise it or look it up ?

You see, there is no question you can't ask on here

 

[CHJ]

Cheers Chas - did you recognise it or look it up ?
,,,,

Recognised it.

Should have said Quaking Grass I suppose, it's the gentle trembling of the seed heads at the slightest disturbance that leads to it's popular name.

 

[dickm]

Just to be picky (my first job was at the now defunct Grasslands Research Institute ) that is almost certainly the large, garden form of Briza, which, not surprisingly has the specific name maxima, not media

 

[dm65]

Well, whichever variety it turns out to be, we're going to order some seeds

Thanks to both of you for your answers (I wonder what else I can get answered - anyone know why my missus is right all the time ? even when she's wrong ?)

 

[MickCheese]

Well, whichever variety it turns out to be, we're going to order some seeds

Thanks to both of you for your answers (I wonder what else I can get answered - anyone know why my missus is right all the time ? even when she's wrong ?)

Because you value a quiet life.

Mick

 

[dm65]

Correct Mick, though unfortunately, my mouth is quicker than my upstairs brain so I always find myself in a deep hole that needs filling