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Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
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There are several plants in my garden which I don't know anything about and I should be very grateful for any help in identifying them.




These grasses have stalks over six feet tall and drooping "flowers"



The yellow plants below:



I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

  Martin Luther King

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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    edited June 2018
    Know the tall yellow plant is lysimachia akso known as loosestrife. Thats the easy one done! 
    First one looks like a brunnera flower 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    3 and 4 are Pendulous Sedge (the great Dickensian character).
    2 looks like a little oak seedling but probably isn't.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    First pic looks like Green Alkanet and I think your grass may be pendulous sedge?
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    The one in the pot... maybe a viburnum??
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    The second pot looks like a cotoneaster.
  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    Thank you ALL very much indeed.  I've googled the names you've given me and. looking at their pictures and my plants together,  I'm pretty sure, Green Alkanet, oak seedling, Cotoneaster, and Lysimachia are exactly right!   :)



    I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

      Martin Luther King

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The Carex pendula (sedge) seeds like crazy and can be v hard to remove once it gets going. I would take it out. If that's what it is.

    Has no. 4 ever flowered? It looks like it might be some bulb.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It looks a bit like a day lily
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    Hi Fire and B3, photo 4 is the bottom part of the sedge.  I  took 2 separate photos of the plant in order to give the viewer a clearer idea of it; so, yes, it has flowered but it's not a hemerocallis. UNFORTUNATELY!

    Though my garden is pure chalk, and thus anything but damp (lately I've been performing every rain dance I know, keeping my fingers firmly crossed...), I think I may well take your advice and remove the sedge.  Truth to tell, it's not exactly a thing of beauty, and it can, therefore, never be a joy forever.



    I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

      Martin Luther King

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Ah, I was right the first time...
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