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Plant ID please!

geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508
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But, in the faint hope it should be there, does anyone know what this might be? It's kind of mysteriously crept up on me in the last couple of weeks, unnoticed until today, hiding under a honeysuckle...

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318

    Honestly I am so rubbish at flower identification and read with wonder the ease with which others identify stuff I have never heard of. But, I think I know this one, so excited and I hope I'm right, I think it is an Evening Primrose.

    Probably not and I shall return to silent admiration of others so I'd wait for those others if I was you.

    "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
  • geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508

    Thanks so much herbaceous - looking at this image below from Google, the flowers and leaf markings are exactly the same, so I reckon you can pat yourself on the back! :)

    https://www.colourbox.com/preview/3470286-background-of-nice-yellow-flower-oenothera-or-evening-primrose.jpg

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,295

    Nice one herbaceousimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318

    Thank you both! I am glowing, that is probably it for the next n years now.

    "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
  • gardenninggrannygardenninggranny Posts: 803

    the scent should be quite heady in the evenings and it will self seed prolifically - transplanted seedlings need lots of water to get them over the move.

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