Any know what these plants are ?

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• molene Posts: 11

  June 2013

  I bought these as plug plants a while ago and now I've lost the label. Can anyone identify them for me please?

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,099

  June 2013

  They look like violas molene 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

  June 2013

  Scabiosa.  Several suppliers were selling "Blue jeans" this year - I have some too.

   

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,441

  June 2013

  I'd say scabiosa, they have that slightly muddled arrangement of leaves in the rosette

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• molene Posts: 11

  July 2013

  Oh lovely. I love scabious -although they haven't been too successful in my garden before. I have very light sandy soil.

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• Gardening Grandma Posts: 1,746

  July 2013

  Hope you do well, Molene. You look as if you are 27, like me (and most other posters on this forum, it seems). I planted quite a few scabious last year and appear to have lost the lot, so I hope you do better than me!

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• molene Posts: 11

  July 2013

  Thanks G.G. and Verdun ,
  
  I will put some compost in the ground before planting out. Yes I agree, G.G. that most on the forum are over 27(at least) . Monty Don(in the latest Gardeners World Mag) was bewailing the fact that few young people are interested in gardening or taking up horticulture as a career.
  
  Sorry you lost your Scabious ,Verdun. I hope I do better this time but it may be that they are just not suitable for my garden.

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