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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Hi @LG_ thanks for your photos. It would help members' enquiries if you would legend your photos either with the plants' names (if you know them) or at least with numbers, for easy reference.
    I very much like your astrantia pics
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Colloquial ‘south London’. 
    Ta!
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Yes I was going to do that, but then thought I wouldn't get round to posting! I've still got 15 minutes editing time...
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited May 2019
    Well, I managed the first one but was a minute too late with the last one! These are the final six:

    Astrantia major
     'Gill Richardson'
    Polygonatum x hybridum (Solomon's Seal)
    Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley)
    Nectaroscordum siculum
    Iris, maybe ensata?
    Iris sibirica I think. The label just said 'Pacific Blue' (it didn't even say 'Iris'!)

    And the Alliums in my first lot are 'Purple Rain' (the starrier ones) and 'Purple Sensation'.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Papi Jo said:
    Colloquial ‘south London’. 
    Ta!
    B3 and I live very near each other (that should really say 'uvver'). But I pronounce it Sahf Luhnd'n. Slight differences, even here ;)
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm posh: soith lundun m'deah. Dulwich Village is only a short bus journey away.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    I think @wild edges is the sedum expert. He'd know.
    It looks like a sedum spathulifolium of some kind. There's a few cultivars and species that look similar.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • guttiesgutties Posts: 224
    First ever flower on my Geum Blazing Sunset:

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Jellyfire I add my compliments re your garden to those already posted here. Lots of colourful scenes, well-designed. Bravo!

    @LG_ Many thanks for labelling your pics... and for not taking offence at my request to do so. ;)-
    "Rose, not sure? Possibly Iceberg", yes, it does look like it. I used to have one of those but pulled it up as it became very diseased after flowering and never ever re-flowered after June.
    "Persicaria runcinata 'Purple Fantasy'" Funny container, looks like a chimney pot! Did you put it there to prevent it from spreading all over your garden, I wonder? I've only got one specimen but it does spread. Found an interesting article about that plant here: https://www.jackwallington.com/how-to-grow-persicaria-runcinata-purple-fantasy/

    Persicaria runcinata 'Purple Fantasy' in my garden.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    That's exactly what it is, and why it's there! The idea is for it to hide the plastic pot it's in, within the chimney pot, and it's growing really quickly so that won't take long.

    The rose is one of several cuttings taken from one at my childhood home before we sold it after our parents died. So there's no question of getting rid of it! They always called it "the peace rose", but it's clearly not 'Peace'. It was grown as a climber, and I thought it might be 'New Dawn', but now I'm tending toward 'Iceberg', which is not a climber... so I don't know. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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