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Plant ID please

nickchard01L5dbgpUKnickchard01L5dbgpUK Posts: 5
edited April 2021 in Plants
Hi, first of many questions from a couple of new gardeners! What is this plant please, and what should we do to save it? We have just pulled it from an overgrown border and looks too big for its pot! Thanks. Nick
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Post a pic using the postcard icon above the box and make sure it is less than 2mb ir it won't load.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    Hello - sorry, your photo isn't showing! May need reducing in size.
  • nickchard01L5dbgpUKnickchard01L5dbgpUK Posts: 5

  • nickchard01L5dbgpUKnickchard01L5dbgpUK Posts: 5
    Hopefully should be able to see it in the post above, thanks for the help!
  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 946
    edited April 2021
    Fatsia japonica?

    Information on care here: https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/shrub/fatsia-japonica.php (near the bottom of the page, sections on care/pruning and growing in containers)
    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Looks like it needs a thorough watering and then you can re-pot or plant it out.

    If you re-pot you can use that same pot.  Water thoroughly then remove form the pot and give that good clean.  Add some crocks to the base to keep drainage holes clear then add a few inches of fresh loam based compost such as John Innes no 3.  tease the roots out a bit to stop them going round and round then replace in the pot and fill the gaps round the sides.  leave an inch or so spare at the top to aide watering.

    Keep it watered whenever the compost feels dry and feed every spring with a slow release fertiliser and you'll have a happy fatsia.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    The only other thing I would add is that they like partial/full shade not bright sun - they tend to burn.
  • nickchard01L5dbgpUKnickchard01L5dbgpUK Posts: 5
    Much appriciated! Thanks 🙂
  • nickchard01L5dbgpUKnickchard01L5dbgpUK Posts: 5
    Hello, 

    We are unsure of the plant below if anyone can help please? Its one of quite a few that we have grown from seed but lost the label!

    Many Thanks

    Nick
     
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Tobacco plant 
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