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Soapwort or something else?

ClematiscrazyClematiscrazy Posts: 37
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Hi all,

I'm hoping somebody can tell me, please, which of these is soapwort (if either) and what the other one might be? They’re both perennial.

many thanks in advance.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    The top pic has Silene latifolia, White Campion


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hi Clematiscrazy. They both look like different types of Silene to me.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The bottom one could be soapwort ... our neighbour grows the double form and it comes under the fence ... the leaves look very similar to the ones at the bottom of the second pic ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ClematiscrazyClematiscrazy Posts: 37
    That’s brilliant, thank you all so much. I think the top one is white campion. I grew them all from the same packet of seeds so I’m not sure what happened there! I like both though so they’re staying, but it’s nice to know what’s what!
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Pretty sure the bottom one is soapwort, looks just like my mothers. Word of warning, it SPREADS it was in an old pond and it got out and came up under all the paving all around the area, it seemed to spread both by roots and by seeding.
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