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Identify please.

Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14
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Self seeded lovely perennial. 12 - 18 inches high. Bright green leaves spaced up stem at intevals. Pale pinky mauve flowers slightly scented. Looks rather like a geranium. I'm told it's a weed but is far too nice to remove and I now have a lovely big patch! I have a photo but don't know how to upload?
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    Hi ann, To upload, click on the tree in the toolbar and work from there.

    Don't try and upload an enormous picture file or it will crash/take ages. It doesn't work from phones



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14
    Oh, thank you for that. Unfortunately I only have a picture on my android phone.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134

    Can you email it to yourself and then save it on a laptop or pc and upload it from there?


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





  • Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14
    It may be Patsy, it's very like one. But is it likely to have been bought in via a bird? I've never grown phlox and the first plant appeared as one stem rooted into the base of our front gate pier

    It slowly multiplied over 4 - 5 yrs when I decided to pull it out and relocate into the back garden. It still came up again the following year though, still in it's original place!
  • Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14
    Thank you Dovefromabove, I will have a go - I'm not much good with technology ( too old!!). image
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    Rose bay willowherb??? comes in on the wind.

      difficult to tell without a picture.image

  • Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14

    image

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    ah

    well done

    I thinks that's Saponaria officinalis, soapwort. Possibly a cultivated variety with semi double flowers



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14

    Hooray, I've done it!! F
    Definitely not Rose bay willowherb.

  • Ann PepperAnn Pepper Posts: 14

    Thank you so much Nutcutlet!!  Is it a wildflower? I just love it and pick vasefulls.

     

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