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Plant ID

Here Comes SummerHere Comes Summer Posts: 3
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 I would really appreciate it if someone could identify the plants in the photographs for me. The first grows tall purple flower spikes in Summer and self-seeds wildly. The second is a tree which I bought from a garden centre many years ago but did not keep the tag and promptly forgot what it was. 

 

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  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502

    The first one is linaria purpurea but I don't know the tree...

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    Wearside, England.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,883

    Your tree MIGHT be Prunus padus - sometimes called the bird cherry. The flowers are sweetly scented and the small fruits that follow are loved by birds.

    http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/native-trees/bird-cherry/

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Here Comes SummerHere Comes Summer Posts: 3

    Thank you Victoria Sponge and Ladybird4. I am now keeping an online record of my plants and only have a few unknowns left.

    With your help Ladybird4 I have now looked at pictures of prunus padus and my tree does look remarkably like that. I bought it together with an amelanchier and on looking again at old garden list I see that I have written "Chinese cherry - prunus glandulosa, alba plena". My tree looks nothing like pictures of Chinese cherry trees so I suspect that my purchase may have been wrongly labelled.

    Thanks again to you both for your help. : ) 

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