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Plant ID please

CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
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image I bought something and put it in this spot but due to age and extravagant plantaholic behaviour, I can't remember what it was.  I was pretty sure that as the planted plant declined towards the end of the year a usurper was making a bid for dominance.

I left it and after a quiet winter, this has come up which looks to me like a red, smaller form of cow parsley.  I think I brought home an evil twin in that original pot. 

What does the team think?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'?



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    or possibly a seedling of, it doesn't look dark enough.

    I should imagine they seed back to bog standard cow parsley eventually



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  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457

    Thanks Nut, that looks like the kiddie.  I'm sure I didn't buy that but ho hum, could be good elsewhere next year.  

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719

    Yup I think nutcutlet is correct, mine doesnt appear to have returned this year, I only bought it last year.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    It's odd, isn't it?

    Every plant I have bought of Ravenswing has only lasted one season, yet self set ones , seem to last . I have one in an awkward place under the magnolia, that has bronze leaves, certainly not as dark as ravenswing, it is now in its third year. Maybe the roots don't like being moved?

    I will try with scattering seed where I want it to be, although slugs get most of them that  way.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Are they like "normal" Cow Parsley, in having long tap roots? if so, perhaps that is why they don't move very well.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    They are  cow parsley pd, just a bit more purple than most. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    Just like the wild Cow Parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing' is biennial - mine (sowed last year) is looking gorgeous just now.  Maybe you bought a plant in its first year? 


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





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719

    Dove am soooh jealous I love umbellifers of any sort, grown both the Ammis from seed this year going to put them on my wildlife turf bit

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