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Tesco Plant ID

Burnett.lizBurnett.liz Posts: 2
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Hello - a long shot. 

2018 - I bought one of those miniature £3 plants Tesco sell in cute little pots. It flowered that year with delicate little white flowers, then continued growing.

2019 - the first photo I can find, after the flowers had gone and when it started to grow towards the light and so I decided to repot it.

2020 - the three subsiquent pictures taken today.

Being from Tesco they didn't give it a proper name but I'm wondering if anyone knows what they usually sell / what it might be?

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I reckon that is Kalanchoe Burnett.liz,  what colour were the flowers?  Most are a kind of orange.  Nice plant anyway  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,527
    edited June 2020
    It is a Kalanchoe of some kind.
    To me it does not look like the typical 'supermarket' Kalanchoes (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana).The leaves on those are usually a bit more glossy,larger and darker.
    I may of course be wrong! 
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,969
    Hi @Burnett.liz  and welcome to the forum. 😊 

    I think that’s a rather leggy kalanchoe. 

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





  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,308
    Hello @Burnett.liz    Everyone has given your plant a name.  I have 2 of these outside now as it's summer,  but if you look after it and bring it inside during the winter, it will give you more flowers and pleasure.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Burnett.lizBurnett.liz Posts: 2
    Thank you all. Do you know if I should be cutting the 'leggyness' back /down? 
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