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Plant identification please!
Innewhambo
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I got 2 pots from the local recycling centre, and because I was slack I didn't empty out the soil! They are now seriously growing and look lovely, especially the big leafed one, can anyone tell me what they are?
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One of the daisies, probably oxeye daisy as it's (almost) flowering now
And possibly Rheum palmatum, not a plant I know well,
A good find
In the sticks near Peterborough
Amazing! I've just looked up the Rheum palmatum on the internet - so chuffed!
Obviously whoever dumped them didn't realise they were perennials which die back completely in winter and thought they were dead. A good find!
The pots are frost damaged, I was going to use them as drainage but never got round to tipping them out!
The ornamental rhubarb will be a lot happier out in the ground where it can more easily access the moisture they need. I have a cream flowered form which does very well and is becoming an impressive plant now plus a more recent pink flowered form (bought from Great Dixter) which tends to die back as soon as it has flowered. I'm hoping it will grow out of that as it matures.