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can you identify this plant please

historymanhistoryman Posts: 141
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can you identify this plant please also its growing habit
Thank you








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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited August 2023
    Bidens. It trails in containers and hanging baskets. It's unlikely to survive a medium/ hard frost.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • historymanhistoryman Posts: 141
    OK thank you - it was actually sold to me as a Perennial but they did not know name. Is there a perennial Bidens?

    Thanks

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Could well be this one, described as a half hardy perennial  :)

    https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/bidens-red-yellow-centre/t57134TM
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Bidens is a perennial, but a tender perennial, so a frost will kill it. That's why it's usually treated as an annual.
    If you can keep it frost free over winter it may come back next year. 

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • historymanhistoryman Posts: 141
    Thank you both - as a matter of interest I asked the person who sold it to me and as they are not from UK they said it is hardy in their country ( I think they are Asian)
    I will give it a try and look after it over winter
    Thanks for help

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    There's another Bidens called Campfire Fireburst which has leaves like the one in your photo.  The yellow Bidens which seeds itself in my garden here in Ireland has much finer divided leaves, which was confusing me...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Yellow bidens self seeds a lot around these parts too, but not the orange one, prettier IMO. The yellow ones resists draught too.

    Luxembourg
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