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Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
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Some more plants, can you help to identify them please?imageimageimageimageimageimageimageThe first and last are anemones 1st. pink last white but do they have a special name?  The second is a Dahlia but which type? The third is a pretty pink & white Gladioli, the next a purple geranium, the next two are I think globe artichokes, but can you put specific names to them please? I am beginning to recognize the names of more plants thanks to all those who have contributed to my earlier posts, but some of those latin names are really difficult to remember.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,166

    the anemones are Japanese anemones which covers many slightly different plants. Hard to give a cultivar name unless you bought it with a label on. So many are so similar.

    Geranium ditto

    dahlias and gladioli I know nothing about.

    Is the thistle thing enormous? can't see the leaves



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  • Den 246Den 246 Posts: 23

    Could be a cardoon if its enormous.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    I think the thistle thing is a globe artichoke.

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,738

    The thistle is a Cardoom - Cyanara cardunculus.

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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    Thanks all - I think the thistle looking thing is a globe artichoke too - it isn't prickly but the plant and flower are huge and were in the vegetable patch of an open garden. I have never grown globe artichokes, only the little Jerusalem  things that are knobbly with a sort of nutty taste.

  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,989

    The geranium look like 'Rozanne'.

    Bonus ID. for the plant amongst the gladioli - it's Crocosmia 'Lucifer'!

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    Oops, I somehow missed the side view - not sure about artichoke now but I always eat them before that stage! image

    Last edited: 10 August 2016 23:13:24

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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    They certainly make an interesting flower Bob, so perhaps next year you could try leaving one or two aside? Thanks AuntyRach, and yes Crocosmia Lucifer, but what is the common orange version called?

  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,989

    Crocosomia x crocosmiiflora is the common one - so no wonder we tend to call it Montbretia. Love that the name derives from the Greek for Saffron smell.

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
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