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Any ideas what these are?

Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468
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 Leaves have a fine fuzz on both sides of them. Throw some names out, I'm sure the old memory will get jogged.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    Are we looking at flowers or veg?

    On phone so can't zoom on much, but they look a bit like a squash of some kind.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468
    Haha, sorry. Garden perrenials of some sort. It's not echinacia. I've still got sight of them and it's not perrenials foxglove, I hope. Gardens full of those buggers as it is
  • NutcrackerSouthSomersetNutcrackerSouthSomerset Posts: 143

    Rudbeckia?

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468

    Ooh, now Rudbeckia could be a good call. It was part of a pack of seeds that T&M had on special and is no longer listing, so I guess we just wait and see.

     

  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    Yes I also thought Rudbeckia, wasn't it Sputnik from T&M.

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468

    Might well have been, GD2. I look forward to the mystery plants flowering next year. I should be fine for a year or two with a bit of tinkering.

  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    Given the right conditions I was expecting mine to flower this year Jimmy. Mine are just two or three inches tall at the moment, but as soon as the temperature rises a couple more degrees they will be planted outside (hardening off first).

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468
    Ibwas planning on waiting a few weeks then getting them into the cold frame until may is over. It's looking like an awkward spring so far.
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    Yes agree Jimmy, even here - the wind is cold - no rain for almost a week & the sun is lovely if you can sit somewhere sheltered from the wind to enjoy it. I keep saying to myself next week will be better, but next week isn't better.

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468
    Well, it's raining at the moment. Tried to snow yesterday. Permanent cold frame should arrive tomorrow. So should get that settled into a gravel base. Might have to line it with bubblewrap for a few weeks though.
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