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Plant/flower ID Please

sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
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Hi!

Another plant ID please!

A few of these flowers are growing in my bed:

Thank you




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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hi again sabeeha. I hope that they are NOT growing in your bed!
    Would it be possible to take a clearer picture of the flowers - they look as if the rain has given them a good battering. It could be one of the Silene family but a clearer picture would help.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    first instinct guess was campanula glomerata, but as Ladybird says,a clearer pic might help nail it.
    Devon.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    They look to me like Soapwort, Saponaria officinalis.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I was just going to say that @Buttercupdays. 🙂

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





  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    I think that Buttercupdays has nailed it sabeeha.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    edited August 2018
    Oh, Soapwort it is! Thank you! Buttercupdays :) and Dovefromabove who was about to say it :)

    lol, no, definitely not growing in my bed :smiley:



  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Sorry about the poor photo :neutral: here is a better one:


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes, soapwort ... we get it coming under the fence from next door.  

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





  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    It is supposed to be gangly? They don't look like any of the nice photos in google images! Mine are sparse and drooping about...(and *cough* look like weeds)


  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    It's a bit like models vs. the rest of us :/.   But you can get rid of it if you don't like it - you're in charge there! 
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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