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Please ID my mystery plant
Dovefromabove
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I found this in one of my borders this morning ... I don't recognise it and don't remember planting it ... although I've had some helpers doing stuff in the garden while I was laid up, I don't think anyone planted anything I didn't know about.
I really don't have a clue what this is ... any ideas?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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no idea , sorry.
That looks really interesting !
Is one flower growing out of the middle of another? - that's weird
Not a clue but I like it
Well, I'm relieved you lot don't recognise it either ... I thought I was losing my touch
but now we need to know what it is ..............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can we please have more details about the plant? How wide are the flowers? It seems to be growing among hostas; it the soil very wet there? Is it a lonely specimen or do you have a few of them? Does it smell? What do the leaves feel like: rough, smooth, etc. What about the stems section (square, round).
Last edited: 03 August 2017 10:29:40
where's nut?
Quite.
How interesting. It doesn't look like a thing that self sows, does it?
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Phlomis is the only flower I can think of that has a flower coming out of a flower. Off to have a look at uncommon varieties.
Doh!
MU you've got it ............ I had a few Monarda seedlngs Sarah Raven's Monarda 'Bergamo' that OH planted out for me a couple of days after I broke my foot ... I was so teed off and in such pain that I just told him to plant things wherever there was a space and they'd either survive or they wouldn't ... but I thought he'd put them in the back garden.
That bed got so rampant while I was laid up that I thought they'd not survived ... but one of them must've done ... as you say MU, it's not the best example of its type but it's had a lot to compete with in that shady corner, which probably isn't the best spot for it. I wonder if any more have survived ........ when the drizzle stops I'll go out and have a look ...
Thanks everyone ... especially MU
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.