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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited July 2022
    izzy8 said:
    Do you think it could be Plumbago?
    Just looked at Plumbago auriculata.
    ..it might be...not sure...leaves alternate in sort of clusters..green stem.
    So easy when you can see the flowers!
    Plumbago auriculata,  common name cape leadwort, blue plumbago or Cape plumbago, 



    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    It looks affected by weedkiller, as well as the chew holes.  One of our neighbours  heavily dosed one side of their fence with weedkiller, and the leaves on our side started producing odd shapes.
  • izzy8izzy8 Posts: 147
    LG_ said:
    I honestly don't know - what kind of plumbago do you mean? I have Ceratostigma which is also known as Chinese plumbago, but it's definitely not that. This is quite sappy and soft.
    The Plumbago I was thinking of was auriculata
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    P. auriculata does look like a possibility - thanks for that! I'll pass that on. I too had wondered about Passiflora but it wasn't quite right. 
    She's lived there for 20+ years and doesn't use weedkiller (and the location of this would make any drift from a neighbour extremely unlikely). 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    She's in SW London with a very sheltered garden but P. auriculata is pretty tender - would it really self-seed outdoors in those conditions?
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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