Plants to ID please!
Rob Lockwood
Posts: 380
Hi all - love this forum, particularly how helpful and pleasant everyone is. I have a number of plants which have materialised in the garden and wondered whether to go at them with a flamethrower or cosset like they were my prize dahlias. There are 6 plants and a set of bulbs I've possibly disastrously dug up - let me know if I need to provide better photos. Brief notes on 5 and 6 and the bulbs:
5 - could this be rose campion - there were some planted here a few years ago and the site's clearer now
6 - not the duckweed or the frogbit(!) - the spear-shaped leaf.
Bulbs (7) - there seem to be 2 types here - the round ones (of which one has the stem & seedhead curled round) and the peanut shaped ones (eg top left). There have been daffodils and bluebells on this site this year.
Thanks!
Posts
1. Euphorbia lathyris
2. Linaria purpurea
3 Redshank, a weed but a nice one
4 you could be right with the rose campion if that's Silene coronaria, or maybe Centaurea montana.
Last one. Bluebells
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think 5 is Centaurea montana with the hairy leaves.
Numbers problem
When I say 4, I mean 5
In the sticks near Peterborough
Wow! Thanks for the speedy response. Rose campion IS silene C. (I knew it as Lychnis C.) and, as I've had Centaurea AND Lychnis on this site before, the jury's out until it grows a bit! What's the story with the peanut v round bulbs, then?!
So I think both your efforts mean there's just 4 (the pinky one!) and 6 (the pondy one) left. Just found another one though!
The pinky one is bistort (Persicaria bistorta). The 'pondy' ones are the tiny floating duckweed and the little reddish green leaves could be frogbit or a miniature waterlily and the green oval leaves look like water hawthorn.
Hmm, in a bit to confuse everyone, I've written pinky - I meant spiky! For the avoidance of doubt, it's this one:
Thanks Ladybird4 - yep, it's the one you've IDd as water hawthorn which I'm wanting to ID - be handy if it IS that as I was planning on buying one! Any idea on the last photo added?
Sorry Rob but it looks too much like several plants and until flowers arrive it is difficult to identify it.
I've got a little muddled with your pictues Rob and my comments relate to your picture number 4! That could possibly be Physostegia which was my instinctive response - but please don't quote me!!!! Once it does flower it may be easier to identify.
Hi all - thanks very much for your comments. I'm also confused now(!) so will start another thread with the stripped-down requests - please have a look to see if I've misunderstood anybody, which is likely...