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UFO (Unidentifiable Flowering Objects) help!

jessie.jonesjessie.jones Posts: 10
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Hello!

I potted up some freebie bedding plants sent along with an order from the garden centre. 

Some have survived slug attack (yay!) but unfortunately the labels have long since perished! 

I’d be very grateful if anyone could please help me identify these plants.

Thank you very much advance!








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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    1. Aubretia

    2. Possibly  Cistus aka  Rock Rose

    3. Hollyhock … Althea

    4. Verbena bonariensis 

    5. 

    6. Possibly Anemone de Caen

    7. 

    8.  Aquilegia 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    2] might be a rock rose or a dianthus.
    7] Photo makes it difficult to really see.
    5] Not sure but not long before it will flower
    agree all others as mentioned by @Dovefromabove
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • jessie.jonesjessie.jones Posts: 10
    Thank you so much! 

    Here are a few more photos of number 7…
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    2 my first thought was Lithodora but it could be one of the other things already mentioned.
    4 is some sort of verbena. Could be V. bonariensis or one of the smaller bedding types.
    5 maybe a marguerite daisy (Leucanthemum I think is the proper name) but that's a long shot.
    7 reminds me of the old-fashioned night-scented stocks but I haven't grown those for donkey's ages or seen them in the GCs.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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