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Can anyone please help with naming this plant?

Kevan EnticottKevan Enticott Posts: 7
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Saw it planted with foxgloves and looked amazing, any help really appreciated!

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  • WaysideWayside Posts: 807

    Perennial wallflower?

  • MrMahoniaMrMahonia Posts: 82

    erysimum bowles' mauve

  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,126

    Erysimum Bowles Mauve. And what a fabulous specimen it is.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 32,356

    it looks like hesperis matronalis, sweet rocket. The leaves looks wrong for Erysimum.

    I might well be wrong.

    Is it scented Kevan?

    Devon.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet PeterboroughPosts: 26,555

    Could be Hostafan. The leaves don't look like erysimum to me either, though it's that family. I've never had a H. matronalis quite as floriferous as that.

  • WateryWatery Posts: 388

    I vote hesperis matronalis.

  • WaysideWayside Posts: 807

    A close up of foliage and flowers would help (I keep failing with my idents!).

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Central Norfolk UKPosts: 79,270

    I've enlarged the photo - it's definitely Hesperis matronalis - foliage, flowers and immature seed pods are identical to mine except mine is the white form. imageMine is on a shady north facing bank. If the purple one gets plenty of sunlight that will explain why it's doing so well. This appears to be a very good year for Sweet Rocket image

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 32,356

    image

    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl west central ScotlandPosts: 47,145

    Delightful Dove. I could do with some of that here image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....


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