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Trying to identify 2 flowers

WitchiwillowIzytiaGSWitchiwillowIzytiaGS Posts: 3
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Hi, please can anyone help to idetify these 2 flowers?
Thanks

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Bottom one is London Pride
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    1st one - maybe a type of silene

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    The top photo is Tellima Grandiflora, Fringe Cups.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    What a pretty flower!!  So I looked up London Pride on the internet.  I will have to plant it in a shady spot but it should grow down here.  I'll check it out in the garden centre when it opens after 11th May - now that I have the botanical name.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It grows anywhere @tuikowhai34 - dry shade, wet shade, sun -anything  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Oh great!  Thank you Fairygirl.  I hope it's not too late to plant as it is getting hot down here already -24°C today with a nice sea breeze.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • WitchiwillowIzytiaGSWitchiwillowIzytiaGS Posts: 3
    Brilliant, thanks  :)
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
     :D   +24°C  !!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It's called London Pride as it popped up every where in London during WWII in the rubble from bombed properties.
    My mum from Bethnal Green kept some going and planted it in the garden when she married my dad. She then transplanted some in the new garden when we moved which for all I know may still be there. The house was sold about 10 years ago.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited May 2020
    As long as you water it in well, and keep an eye on it - it'll be fine  :)
    We had some in a previous garden which grew on a bank between a building and a row of laurels. Never saw daylight, and flowered like mad  :)

    I've got some in a similar spot here - under an ivy and a conifer
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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