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Can you help identify these plants, please?

amandataylor6amandataylor6 Posts: 11
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Is anyone able to identify these plants and give me any advice to keeping them healthy in the garden?  I have tried some plant apps but one told me it was cannabis, which it is not.  The plant with brown flower heads did have flowers in late spring, a beautiful bright pink.
thank you.

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    The first two pictures are hellebores.  There are different sorts, flowering in winter/spring; they're "easy care" plants which like a shady spot, under trees if possible (they benefit from some rotten leaves or compost as a mulch).

    In the third photo the plant with the feathery leaves looks like a delphinium - but I'm not sure, someone else will come along with an ID.  The plant with undivided leaves in front of it could be something like a Shasta daisy.

    The plants in the last 2 photos with brown seed heads are sedums, I think (many now re-named as Hylotelephium).  The common one is 'Autumn Joy' (but you said yours flowered in spring so it's not that one!).  You can dig up and split these plants if you want, to give you more of them.  In the last picture the plant with heart-shaped leaves in front of the sedum looks like a hardy cyclamen.  That might be best carefully dug up and moved to a shady spot with a bit more room before it gets swamped by the sedum.  And to the left foreground, the plant with the light green leaves might be a daylily.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    edited March 2023
    you need to take the tatty leaves off the hellebore, ideally this needs doing as soon as the flower buds show.
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    3rd picture looks like a acontium
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited March 2023
    Pic 3 feathery leaves.  Might be a monkshood.  Poisonous!
     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."
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I agree, the feathery one in the 3rd pic is aconitum (monkshood), not delphinium. The plant in front of it looks like red valerian, Centranthus ruber, although it could be the white form.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Don't worry too much about the Aconitum being poisonous, they are beautiful plants and can be looked after easily and safely [ but don't eat them ]
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I agree, common-sense applies. Wear gloves if you're going to handle it, wash your hands afterwards.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I agree with Perki,  Aconitum,  it’s about the only thing that’s really up in the garden at the moment.  Bees favourite plant,  they love it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    edited March 2023
    They're all very easy going, you only need to cut back dead bits and spent flower heads really.
    I agree with @Liriodendron about moving the cyclamen.
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