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Identification Problems
Graham Langford
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Could anyone help identify these two plants,especially the red one.
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The red one is lychnis coronaria and the other one is a curry plant.
Curry plant's latin name is Helichrysum italicum, forgot how to spell it. Lychnis seeds itself, you can scatter the seeds and it'll pop up next year.
Thanks Busy-Lizzie for that.Is this curry plant a perennial plant as i've not heard of it before.As for the lychnis,I've chopped it in to 3 plants this year and it's done really well.Is this a perennial or annual as,Like you say,It will self seed but will the origional plant flower next year?
Hi Graham, I would describe the lychnis as a short-lived perennial. But the best flowers for me come from the younger plants that have self seeded.
The curry plants is a shrubby helichrysum which can be hard pruned in spring
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/34062/Curry-plant/Details
In the sticks near Peterborough