What is this plant please?

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• Athelas Posts: 946

  May 2021 edited May 2021

  Looks like Erysimum 'Bowles’s Mauve' (wallflower) in amongst euphorbia
  
  Not typically considered a weed
  
  https://powerscourtgardenpavilion.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/plant-of-the-month-erysimum-bowless-mauve/
  
  https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/erysimum-bowless-mauve/classid.2000010655/
  

  Cambridgeshire, UK

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• didyw Posts: 3,573

  May 2021

  Erysimum Bowles Mauve - a lovely plant and it looks gorgeous with your euphorbia.
  
  
  

  Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  May 2021

  Oh thanks both. It’s being green all winter even with the harsh winter we had but it’s bush out nicely in the last few weeks as it was a tiny plant initially. It does make the euphorbia stand out nicely. I need more of this since I have a lot of euphorbia in my borders. 

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• PeggyTX Posts: 556

  May 2021

  Lucky you!  What a lovvely flower and leaf that one has!

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• Mary370 Posts: 2,003

  May 2021

  You should take cuttings of the bowles mauve.......they literally flower themselves to death, they last about 3 years, but get very woody.

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• Bilje Posts: 811

  May 2021

  Mary370 said:

  You should take cuttings of the bowles mauve.......they literally flower themselves to death, they last about 3 years, but get very woody.

  Good advice from Mary, my parent plant died over the winter but I’ve two replacement plants that are well grown and flowering. They do root easily. The parent plant was on its last legs when I took the cuttings so they weren’t the best material but have grown well despite that. 

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  May 2021

  Just coming back to update that I’ve taken cuttings to propagate so will see how it goes for new plants so that I can get more of a consistent effect in the borders. Thanks @PeggyTX, @Mary370 and @Bilje

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