Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: Plant ID help
These are probably all common plants but I don't know the names of any of them! Excuse the poor quality, hopefully you'll be able to see enough ("good" camera is out of charge) to give them names.
This has a leaf like mint but tastes disgusting despite the pretty pink flower!
I love this understated pink.
This grows like a weed!
This one really intrigued me with leaves like a strawberry and a red flower that opens in the sunshine
Simple white bell flower.
Another pretty one.
The bees, butterflies and cabbage whites go absolutely crazy for this purple mint type plant.
Another white one.
This wee tree was covered in bindweed, a pretty one with yellowy orange berries
White again but lots of flowers on a single stem this time.
I think number six may be Thrift, and the last tree , can't really see well enough, but I'm guessing maybe Bottlebrush, Rowan or Mimosa according to the fruit shape and size, etc.
Here's my best guesses (which agree with Aggie, so at least some of them are right!)
1. If you mean the one with the variagated leaf, could it be come sort of pulmonaria (lungwort)? If you mean the deep magenta one, it's a cranesbill.
2. Astrantia - beautiful things and that's a gorgeous one
3. Campanula
4. Don't know, but those really do look like strawberry leaves don't they?
5. Another campanula
6. Another astrantia
7. Nepeta (catmint)
8. Another campanula maybe?
9. It's not really clear enough to see but if it has leaves like an ash tree, it could be a young rowan, in which case you can stop worrying about witches in your garden
10. Mallow (I think) _________________ When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realise his first name was Always ...
The red flowers are on that plant Aqui, don't think it's geranium/cranebill because of the strawberry like leaves and the flowers only open up in sunshine. I've googled and googled, can't find it.
The catmint one threw me because of the cats, I thought it was a mint (I've no sense of smell) but the cats don't go near it! Great thing for keeping the cabbage whites off your veg.
I'll try and get a better photo of No 1, I don't think it's a pulmonaria going by the descriptions in Greenlady's herbal books.
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