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ID please!

Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
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Hi all

This one growing strongly in some pots we were given - any clues?  Thx!


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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited June 2021
    They look a bit like sunflowers to me, or maybe one of the big prairie daisy family?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    Thanks Bob!  Any more for any more?
  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    edited July 2021
    Hi all!  Flowers now out, which always helps with id!  These get to 5-6ft (150-180cm); anyone recognise them, including cultivar if you can stretch that far?

  • Christine 14Christine 14 Posts: 43
    Looks like Helenium 'Lemon Queen' or very similar.  These grown to 6ft in my garden.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Could be a Heliopsis.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • rachelQrtJHBjbrachelQrtJHBjb Posts: 819
    I think it's a perennial Helianthus. 

  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    Heli-something then! :)
    Thanks all, welcome any other thoughts!
  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    I've done a bit of Googling and reckon Heliopsis Helianthoides is most likely, which nicely brings everyone's guesses in  :) though they're not pale enough for Lemon Queen I don't think Christine.
    Don't know which cultivar though - perhaps they're a species one as the flowers seem much simpler than the common cultivars.  And most of the cultivars seem to be var.scabra (hairy leaved, which mine aren't - much) :D
    Thanks again all!
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