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Can anyone help with some IDs, please?

LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
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Last summer, high winds overturned a shelf in my "blow-away" greenhouse, and upturned a seed tray of little pots of perennials, recently sown, onto the gravel floor.  I scooped up the compost as best I could and bunged it all into a tray, just in case anything germinated.  Some things did... eventually.  But I'm not sure which is which.  

I sowed: 
1) Verbascum chaixii
2) Cephalaria gigantea
3) Scabiosa (dunno which, a tall blue one from a friend's garden)
4) Lysimachia ephemerum
5) Lunaria rediviva
- and there's also the strong possibility some weeds have also germinated...   :/

Here are photos of the young plants I think might not be weeds: 
A)

Is (A) Verbascum?

B)

Could (B) be Lunaria?

C)

Dunno.  Could be the same as D but the leaves seem blunter and less hairy.

D)


E)

This is considerably bigger than the rest - around 15cm tall.

Any opinions gratefully considered!   :)

Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    A. Verbascum
    B. Lunaria
    C. ?
    D. ?
    E. Cephalaria
    East Anglia
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Thanks very much, @Asarum.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    C might be the scabious?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Very possibly, @Lizzie27.  Thanks.  Just hoping it's not a daisy...   ;)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Not convinced E is cephalaria gigantea as the leaves should be a different shape - https://claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/products/cephalaria-gigantea 
    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
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Thanks @Obelixx.  I wondered (hopefully) if the basal leaves might be entire, but it doesn't look as if they are.  Might just have to plant it and see what emerges...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I can always find a Cephalaria seedling hiding somewhere - I'll try to remember to take a photo tomorrow. They're quite a different colour to E ime.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    The young leaves of Cephalaria are entire, unlike the mature leaves. I’ve weeded thousands out of a border I worked on, they got everywhere!
    East Anglia
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Thanks both.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Here's a rather tatty Cephalaria seedling. It's coming out now!

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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