plant id please

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  April 2020

  Lesser Periwinkle (Vinca minor.)
  

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• garden geek Posts: 138

  April 2020

  1. thanks, bob, but the flower petals seem very narrow for that any other ideas

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  I agree ... it looks like a Vinca... leaves and growth looks right from what I can see, number of petals and colour looks right ... but yes the petals are narrower and a bit darker  than the ones I know ... I wonder if anyone knows of a variety with flowers like those ... it’s very pretty ...
  
  Edited to add ... are the leaves paired or alternate? Vinca has paired leaves. 

  
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• garden geek Posts: 138

  April 2020

  agree with your comments dove can't be sure on leaves, pic sent to me from daughter-in-law on phone, from what she said it seemed to have spread everywhere like vinca but  doesn't look like any know, hope someone can nail it, I have suggested she dig it all out, 

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• Chrissy the gardener Posts: 1,072

  April 2020

  I’m pretty sure it’s a type of vinca, very pretty why do you want to dig it all up?

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  April 2020

  Vinca major var oxyloba has narrower petals

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Borderline Posts: 4,700

  April 2020

  The photo needs to be taken a bit further away to work out the scale. I suspect there are two plants there. On the top right section, there are different leaves there. Flowers reminds me of a type of Isotoma.

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• garden geek Posts: 138

  April 2020

  thanks for help folks vinca, it is s surfer hit the nail on the head with Vinca major var oxyloba .
   Crissy the reason she wants it out is it has spread everywhere,.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  April 2020

  It'll do that😒

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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