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Does anyone know what these two plants are?

Poppy GirlPoppy Girl Posts: 36

The mauve plant grows to about 4 ft high.  The pink plant is quite low growing but very invasive.  Does anyone have any ideas what either of them are please?

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,528

    The pink one looks like fumitory

  • Poppy GirlPoppy Girl Posts: 36

    Thank you,   Have just looked it up in book and says a weed of cultivated land not good seeing as its all over my gardenimage

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    I'm not v. good at this, but could the top one be a Veronica?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,986

    I think that purple is one of the linarias from the shape of the individual flowers.

    I should think the second is fumitory if it's all over the garden though at firstglance I thought it was one of the corydalis, taliensis or one of those, nearly as invasive



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  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Nut, do you think the leaves are linaria?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,986

    I'll just go and look artjak



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,986

    yes. But mine isn't L. purpurea. i don't know what it is. The packet said L. dalmatica but that's yellow. It's tall and comes in purple, pink and a sprt of beigy colour



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,528

    i thought the blue flowers look like speedwell, but speedwells are veronicas and I can't find a tall one like that.

  • Poppy GirlPoppy Girl Posts: 36

    Yes, it really is tall, easily 4ft maybe more.  I'm 5ft 3 and it reaches my neck. It reproduces through the roots producing offshoots.  Does that help at all?

  • cotty1000cotty1000 Posts: 293

    The pink one is a small dicentra(bleeding heart).a side on photo would be more conclusive.the leaves look similar to a Welsh poppy,which I nearly mistake it for in my garden.I like it.does well in dappled shade

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