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Any idea what this is?

andychelt1980andychelt1980 Posts: 9
in Plants
Hi, firstly, does anyone know what this is? And secondly, should i have pruned it right back a few months ago, since large portions of it seem brown and dead now? Thirdly, if yes,should i prune all the brown dead bits now, even though a small bit of the shrub has started flowering again? Thanks very much!

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited May 2018
    Wallflower.
    It might be the perennial bowles mauve, or the standard biennial.  It will probably flower itself to death this summer. If it is the perennial, then you can take cuttings. Otherwise you take seed and start again, sowing this June or July and planting out in September.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Looks like erysium Bowles Mauve to me - a perennial wallflower. It will flower itself to a standstill, but as fidgetbones says, you can take cuttings. Even l managed to do this successfully ! 
  • andychelt1980andychelt1980 Posts: 9
    Thanks for the responses!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Bowles Mauve  won’t grow from seeds,  but they are easy from cuttings, I only keep them two years, then they go woody and a bit bare at the bottom,  by then the new cuttings are big enough to go out. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    You can prune off the dead bits now.
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