Plant 55 Submitted by:

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Could you please help on ID for this plant self seeded currently 3ft high flowers are vaguely antirrhinum or orchid like. Stems hollow with high water content bit like red cow parsley.Leaves pointed ovals with marked red veins.
Thanks

From Gardeners Club Member, UK
Now discovered it is called indian touch me not due to the fact that the seed pods when touched, if ripe , will crack and fire seeds up to about 10 feet away and can sting the unwary.
Himalayan Balsam is a commom name or Impatiens Glandulifera. Really an invasive pest which escaped from Kew in the late 18001`s.Can be seen in vast swathes in the upper Severn valley ...Ironbridge etc.

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Plant 54 Submitted by:

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These plants have appeared in my garden this year. They are climbers and have very hairy red stems. If anyone could provide any information e.g. does it flower? I would be most grateful.

From Jacky, UK
I was looking through the website and came across your picture. We have a kiwi plant that looks very similar. The stems are red and hairy. Sorry don't know Latin name.

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Plant 53 Submitted by:

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Does anyone know this one? It seems to have come up from the spoil dug from the lawn.

From Lisa, UK
It looks like it belongs to the malva or mallow family which can range in height from 12 inches up to several feet if the pink giant variety is grown.

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Plant 52 Submitted by:

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Any idea what this is? It appeared in my garden this year. The plants are large, almost a metre in height, and the large leaves are soft and slightly crinkly.
Jenni

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Plant 51 Submitted by:

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Hope someone can help. This is growing so well I think it must be a weed! Over 6ft in a shady spot with fairly dry, poor soil. Not yet in flower (June 05). Leaves grow alternately up stem – no stalk- joined together at plant stem to form a water collecting bowl. Spectacular but what is it please?

From Jacqueline, UK
The plant is called a teasle, can grow to a height of 8 to 10ft.

From Pauline, UK
I don't know what it's called but it is a weed and unless you want it all over your garden get rid of it before it flowers!!

All best wishes

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Hello there
Can anyhone tell me what this plant is? I attach 4 photos. It started to appear in the spring in the flower bed. I haven't planted it myelf, and although I have searched through a number of garden encyclopedia, I can't find it? The nearest thing I have seen is a herb called Clary. Although the picture I saw was only in black and white, so it was no help in terms of the colour. Is this a Clary? It's quite pretty and I would really like to know what it is.
Hoping for your help.

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I am trying to trace the name of a plant that I brought back from Cornwall the year before last. Last year it was so-so but this year it is glorious and so many people have asked what it is and I cannot find the label!! My plant is a profusion of purple flowers on sedum type stem. It is grown all over Cornwall in borders and coming out and over walls in various shades of pink/purple and also white. It likes full sun and a sheltered spot. I am attaching a photo that I took this week. I hope that you can help. I think that it might begin with the letter L!!!

Kind regards
Marylyn Smith

From Penny, UK
This is a Mesembryanthemum also known as the Livingstone Daisy which is where your "L" comes in! Grows profusely in Spain but here looks lovely in the summer and then dies with the frost.

From Sianie, UK
Hiya, possibility it could be erigeron

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Can anyone identify this plant please? We know we planted it and within the last 5 years, but cannot remember when or what it is.

Many thanks
Nick - Cambridgeshire

From Sianie, UK
Sysirinchium Striata

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We have just bought a house in Dumfries & Galloway in Southwest Scotland. The location is near the coast which is warmed by the Gulf Stream (2 miles as a bird flies) so growing conditions are very temperate with snow very rare in winter. The soil type in this garden varies from slightly alkaline to slightly acid.

The previous owners of the house had invested in lots of plants and shrubs over the past four years, but many of these are now without plant labels.

This is currently a small bush, but looks as if it has the potential to get much larger. It's distinctive leaves have a reddish tinge, and the flowers appear in pairs in the leaf axils.

A friend suggested that it reminded her of the plant she'd seen in a seaside garden in Somerset with the common name 'nutmeg bush' but I don't think the flowers are right for this. I also wondered if it might be something in the honeysuckle family.

Any help is much appreciated... there are two of these bushes and they appear to be thriving.

From Deb, UK
The plant is himalayan honeysuckle, I'm sure, my daughters just bought one after seeing it at garden centre, the lady told us what it was, there are a few websites out there that tell you all about it.

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