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Plant ID's please

Peanuts3Peanuts3 Posts: 759

I've started taking a closer look in the sensory garden.

Could you help me ID these please. sorry, they seem to be on the side.

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3) I thought this might be lavendar or rosemary, but the leaves didn't have any smell ?

 

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4) This has a pink flower in the summer, sure it begins with 'g'

 

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 Really appreciate any help, then i can start moving them round into our rainbow colours.  thannk you.

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  • 1 and 2 are Euonymus (small evergreen shrubs)

    3 looks like Helianthemum (rock rose, an evergreen alpine)

    4 hmmm, bit difficult to tell...  Gaura?

    5 possibly Phlox douglasii, alpine phlox - evergreen, mat-forming

    Others may disagree...  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,023

    I think Liri has got them all right, except the phlox could be phlox subulata, more common than phlox douglasii.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • 3 looks like lithodora diffusa to me

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Not a plant I know well  Bamboogie.  But it's too bristly for Helianthemum



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    3 could be either of the two previously suggested helianthemum or lithodora. I grow both and they both look very similar, it's only because I know which is which that you can tell the difference. I wouldn't be sure until you see the flowers.

  • 4 is definitleyGaura, I pruned one like that yesterday.

  • Peanuts3Peanuts3 Posts: 759

    Great, thank you so much. Number 3 is a mystery as I don't remember seeing either of the suggestions last year, but probably just didn't notice.  Will see what appears this year. Thank you again.

  • 3 If it has blue flowers it will be lithodora as far as I know.

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