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Help identifying plants
clueless_gardener
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This plant is growing at the base of my magnolia but I've no idea what it is, (along with many of the plants in my garden!)
Any ideas?
The photos were taken April 28th 2017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/59981965@N00/33939740220/in/album-72157683165261025/
I've included my other blossom tree, is it cherry? The flowers don't look quite right though.
Thanks!
My blog: https://cluelessgardener.co.uk/
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Its ,London Pride, Saxifraga × urbium, a perennial garden flowering plant. Alternative names for it include St. Patrick's Cabbage, Whimsey, Prattling Parnell, and Look Up And Kiss Me.
Yes, that looks like one of the flowering cherries.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I used to have London Pride in my first garden. I was given a cutting of the variegated type by Kathy Brown when we visited and this year it's flowering and has settled in lovely.
http://kathybrownsgarden.homestead.com/
Oh lovely! Thanks so much for that! The leaves certainly look like little cabbages!
I should think I'll be back very soon with more questions. It's so hard identifying plants with google alone!
London pride are pretty when they flower and can form an inpentretable ground cover that keeps most weeds at bay.
Even the formidable Dandelion stands little chance of germinating as their seeds rarely reach the soil amidst the foliage of this little beauty.
That's good to know! I have all sorts of weeds and saplings sprouting up in my wild woodland area!
Apart from that I have, "please can someone identify" this Alpine. I have just discovered that the plant I thought it was had the wrong lable. It's this little beauty, very small I should have put a marker by it.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'