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Sedum or Cerinthe?

alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
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Could anyone identify please?
Thanks. 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Cerinthe


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Cerinthe purpurascens. I have been digging them up and moving them very recently. Tough things  :)
  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    Thanks Both,
    That would have been my guess but they hadn't been planted especially nearby whereas the sedum was.
    Perhaps a bird drop a seed. 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    I don't know whether they are perennial, but it may be a bit late to flower this year.  If it does, and if it sets seed, sew them in the spring.  They are worthwhlie and, in the right place, will come up year after year.


     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They are annuals, but they self sow with gay abandon.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Sometimes the seedlings are not so good. Not sure why but they often don't have the same vibrant colours as the mother plant.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I sowed some a few years ago and self-seeders came up for several years thereafter.
    They seem to be very tough, and the little seedling above will come through the harshest winter weather.
    I never noticed self-sown seedlings being not so vibrant, but perhaps I just didn't notice..

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Pete.8 Not sure why noticed it either and I have no explanation.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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