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Can anyone ID this plant, please?
Mistwalker
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This mystery plant currently stands about a foot high and is growing at an amazing rate. It's in my Mother's bog garden but she can't remember if it's one she planted or if it's an unwelcome self-seeder. Any help would be appreciated.
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If it's in a bog garden it might be an astilbe but it looks a bit yellow.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks very much, Nutcutlet. I'll take a good look at them online tomorrow when I'm more awake and see if your hunch is right.
I see the link to the full pic seems to be broken so here's another link to it...
http://www.foggymeadow.com/pictures/unknown.jpg
What I also see is a creeping buttercup. I'd get those out asap
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, I agree but my dear ol Mom loves 'em. It's her train set so I have to let her play with it as she likes. I do keep trying to persuade her to let me thin them out a little but she appears to have a buttercup fetish
I feel sorry for that little aubrieta
In the sticks near Peterborough
That's actually doing well, it's growing in the rocks that form the border to the bog garden and if you could see just to the left of that pic you'd see it's thriving. On the other hand, there are quite a few new plants in among the buttercups fighting to keep their heads above the crowd.
The bog garden is an old pond which I filled in for her with a good mix of soil, compost and Sphagnum moss.... Which apparently Buttercups love.
We do! Given my boardname, I have to love buttercups, but even I draw the line at creeping ones in among more special plants - they don't creep, they race! Why not replace with a better behaved one like Ranuculus aconitifolius, (Fair maids of France) which has white flowers in early summer? I have the single version,which is pretty, but the double one is covetable! The creepers can be consigned to a quiet corner or a wild patch, they will make themselves at home anywhere.
I think it might be aruncus dioicus, but it's in need of a good feed.
Thanks very much for the suggestion, Buttercupdays. I've shown my Mom some pictures of the Fair maids of France and she likes them a lot. She's sent word down the line of command to begin an attack on the creepers immediately
Hostafan, you're spot on with your ID. My Uncle came around yesterday and said it was that. too so thanks for the pointer