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FlowerNewbieFlowerNewbie Posts: 153
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Hello! Can someone identify these for me please, I moved recently and are in my front garden  :)
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    1.  One of the wild violets https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/common-dog-violet

    2.  London pride Saxifraga urbium

    3.   Looks a bit like astilbe but Im not sure ...

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





  • FlowerNewbieFlowerNewbie Posts: 153
    Thank you Dovefromabove 💕
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m not sure about the last one, it looks like astilbe but mine has flower spikes now. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2019
    Lyn said:
    I’m not sure about the last one, it looks like astilbe but mine has flower spikes now. 
    Yes, I'm not sure ... looks very familiar .... :/

    Idea ... are those leaves connected with that dead looking shrub next to it?

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





  • theend00theend00 Posts: 48
    That second one is definitely saxifrage, I have London Pride that looks almost exactly like it . Wild violets for the first. 

    The bush behind the plant looks like a holly , there are spiky leaves on top the astilbe Dove
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    There’s also some privet and possibly lonicera nitida ... so they’re nothing to do with the possible astilbe ... 

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





  • theend00theend00 Posts: 48
    It wouldn't happen to be a type of rubus would it ? I've seen golden raspberries with really serrated leaves and that trifoliate pattern 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Cant see any long spiky branches ... but if it’s an area that’s only recently been cut back we may have to wait ... but I’d have thought there would be some stumpy bits ... whatever this is it looks as if it’s something that dies down over winter ...

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





  • FlowerNewbieFlowerNewbie Posts: 153
    It seems like whatever was there in that space before the previous owners covered the full slope in bark chipping. The dead shrub still had a few tiny leaves on it and the possible astilbe is a bit down from the dying shrub. I’ll take another picture. It’s definitely not raspberries, I have plenty of those in the allotment they’re a lot smaller and thinner leaves  :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think I’d try digging at least some of it out with ad much root as you can, pot it up and look after it and see what happens 😊 

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





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