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Plant ID please

josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
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Hello, I bought this fellow last autumn, it was unlabeled but the seller told me it was a mini dianthus. It looks healthy and grows steadily but no flowers or buds until now? Who knows what this is? It’s only 4 inches high. And yes, I have a terrible horsetail problem, as you can see in the pics. It’s the only thing my slugs don’t like to eat. 

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  • DimWitDimWit Posts: 553
    If so, the biggest mini dianthus I've ever seen! Maybe an interspecific Dianthus, but surely of the tallest kind.
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    DimWit said:
    If so, the biggest mini dianthus I've ever seen! Maybe an interspecific Dianthus, but surely of the tallest kind.
    It is only 4 inches?
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    It could be Dianthus alpinus. In which case it should flower in a couple of weeks time.
  • DimWitDimWit Posts: 553
    My interspecific ones are so short, they hug the ground! Hope yours is D. alpinus, it is great....
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    Thank you! I looked it up and the pictures looked a lot like my plant. It seems to come in different colours, so that will be a surprise. I will keep you informed..
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    DimWit said:
    My interspecific ones are so short, they hug the ground! Hope yours is D. alpinus, it is great....
    I hope so too.. Plants tend to grow really and bizarre big in my garden, horsetail en real plants alike

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Those look exactly like my Dianthus deltoides (Maiden pink.)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    BobTheGardener said:
    Those look exactly like my Dianthus deltoides (Maiden pink.)
    And is yours flowering now? Looks like a better match than the alpine. In dutch the deltoides is called steenanjer, this means stone pink.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Mine are just beginning to send up flowering stems but no flowers yet.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    BobTheGardener said:
    Mine are just beginning to send up flowering stems but no flowers yet.
    I will just have to wait and be patient!
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