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Identification

president53president53 Posts: 5
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Help, can someone please identify the attached. I was given these last year but do not know what it is it what it does.
Many thanks
Richard
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  • Simon Wright3Simon Wright3 Posts: 34
    Hydrangeas.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Not hydrangeas, can’t think what though 🙂
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    I think they look like Phlomis aka Jerusalem Sage 
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited May 2020
    phlomis russeliana 
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/12705/Phlomis-russeliana/Details

    Butterfly66 said:
    I think they look like Phlomis aka Jerusalem Sage 
    Jerusalem sage is phlomis fruiticosa different thing entirely. 



    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/12700/phlomis-fruticosa/details
    Devon.
  • president53president53 Posts: 5
    Thanks for all the suggestions, I have still not found a lookalike.
  • president53president53 Posts: 5
    Could they be a type of Hosta, saying that the leaves are very soft.
  • starlily106starlily106 Posts: 15
    Can anyone tell me the name of this plant? It looks like a viola,  purple, with heart shaped leaves, is flowering now, and spreads quickly. I think it is very pretty, and have found it growing in my front garden. It has no smell. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Dog violet? 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    @president53, do your mystery plant's leaves feel rough and bristly?  If so, I think it's comfrey.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    Dog violet? 
    That's my first thought ... but without a photo it's a bit tricky ... 

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





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