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Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
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Yes, more plants, all are either in our garden or growing nearby.  Can anyone help to identify them please?imageimageimageimageimageThe 4th. plants was growing out of a wall and may be a mesembryanthemum (not a Livingstone Daisy) - a sort of succulent. I think the last picture is a hebe but which one?

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 35,789

    1 is a poppy. 2 Not too sure but looks like Euryops 3 Solanum 4 Looks like an Epiphyllum 5 Could be Hebe Red Hugh

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,982

    I should think that Solanum is S. crispum 'Glasnevin'. it's one of the most common garden ones.

    I wondered if the yellow might be an erigeron



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 35,789

    It could very well be nutcutlet but I do like its 'clumpy' growth - whatever it is. Maybe  just another plant I have to admire, as it would probably not survive in the North West.

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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    The Solanum certainly had a potato flower look about it - I didn't realize they could be grown in an herbaceous border, not sure if nut has no. 2 right with Erigeron or Ladybird with Euryops - the plant is a low growing rockery type plant, no. 4 was in a very dry stone wall, the plant looked almost dead but the flower was very much alive, soft to touch and quite attractive, you can also get pink flowers. The hebe was more deep pink than red. No. 1 is a lovely showy, big headed poppy - does it have another name?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,982

    poppy is Papaver somniferum, opium poppy, comes in various shades



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 50,189

    Decorative potato as opposed to the edible kind GD.  image

    In fact - I think they're also poisonous, but it's not an issue unless you're planning on having it for dinner image

    There's a white variety too. They're not particularly hardy up here,  or I'd have that one in the garden.

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



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,455

    I've found Solanum Crispum 'Glasnevin' (potato vine) a bit of thug where I live in East Anglia but the stand out star of the garden flowering from Spring until late Autumn and almost evergreen. 

    Here it is with Clematis Armandii and Spirea Bridal Wreath (June in my last garden).

    image

    I was so pleased with it that I've planted it my new garden and this year it got its roots down despite being in a North East facing position.  I'm hoping being not the best position will curtail it a little but it has now settled and grew twice its height this year.  Next year I'm expecting a nice show.

  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    Gosh that does look healthy Cloggie - I had no idea that it would grow into such a large plant. Thanks all for helping to name my "mystery" plants yet again.

  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,455

    Healthy yes, and this was pruned .. a lot!  It's a massive plant and doesn't seem to need moisture.

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