Forum home› Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

What’s growing in my pot?

MessynessyMessynessy Posts: 81
in Plants
Hi, can anyone tell me what’s starting to grow in this pot please? There is a little flowering something in there that grew from a hanging basket seed last year. My children planted those seeds so quite a few appeared around the garden. I think the flowers are white? But I’m mostly interested in the newer thing sprouting out the middle. Thank you 
«1

Posts

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Dicentra spectabilis, perhaps? That's usually quite early to start growing. I don't know if it's something that could have got there accidentally/by seed though, so probably wrong.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    A Peony?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I think from the side it looks like a peony too. Is the other plant erigeron karvinskianus or common name fleabane?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • MessynessyMessynessy Posts: 81
    I hope it’s a peony then. I bought one reduced last summer but it never grew so I assumed it died. If it is, will it be okay in that pot this year or is it better in the ground. I’m so excited!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd have said peony too, but it would be unlikely to just appear as they don't spread by seed. As you say you bought one in last year  though - then that's definitely it  :)
    It won't be happy for too long in a pot, but it'll be fine for a year or two until the roots fill it. When you replant, make sure it isn't buried - that's the main reason for them failing to flower. The crown should be no deeper than around an inch. I leave mine quite high because of the climate, but they're in the ground too. 

    I would take the other plants out though. They look like wallflowers or something, but if you're careful, you could get those out and pop them into another pot.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Messynessy Peonies are tough plants so maybe that is why it has suddenly reappeared. As @Fairygirl has said planting depth is the most important thing to remember. I would take the other plant or plants out too.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I also thought a peony but possibly an alstroemeria. I have peonies in the garden about the same height now but the buds of the flowers could be a Peruvian lily/alstroemeria.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Nessy, Perhaps a change of username, to one that is aspirational.  Messy is not a joke in any walk of life.
     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."
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I would agree - peony!  I inherited one with this garden but it was the wrong colour in the wrong place so a couple of years ago I decided to get rid of it.  I thought I had got all of the roots out, but no, last year, up popped some new shoots exactly like yours.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Messynessy I love your user name.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Sign In or Register to comment.