This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Plants left by last owner
Lovely Saturday morning to do some gardening! These were planted by the previous owner of a house I have just moved into, and I am wondering what they are,
the second picture is an almost flowering specimen.
I have an entire sea of them, and wondering how much bigger they are going to get!!
Katherine
0
Posts
Hi Kassi
The first one might be lemon verbena - do the leaves smell lemony?
The second is figwort - a wild plant but it often crops up in gardens - one of the first plants I learned to identify as a child so I'm quite fond of it - if you google it you'll find out lots of interesting stuff.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Second one's figwort. Leaves smell strong, not very pleasant. HC
They don't smell of anything, that I can detect. Currently around 4ft with very shallow root system.
Thanks for such a quick id on the figwort, I'll be moving that to my wild area.
First one looks a bit like a Loosestrife to me. Hope it's not rosebay
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The first one looks like a Penstemon of some sort?
I'd say a willowherb and figwort. Don't think the previous owner would have planted them - both appear from wind-borne seeds.
That's not some golden rod, is it, the first one?
I reckon no1 is one of those 'could be anythings', that we could recognise if it was in front of us but not in a photo
In the sticks near Peterborough
Once it has a flower on it, we will be able to identify it more easily!