Plant 31 Submitted by:

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Can you name this please

From Mary and Gerald
This looks like the Lavatera related to the Mallow, having pink white or purple flowers thrives well from June to late Autumn easy to take cuttings from. Cut well back in winter.

From Karen, UK
Thanks Mary I think you have hit it right on the nail.

From Gardeners Club Member, UK
This is a lavatera , you can also get the annual ones which are pink and white, you have to collect the seeds for those.

From David, UK
Hi Karen, Mary & Gerald.
I looked at this picture and instantly thought Hibiscus.
I've had a quick look at other pics on the Net and am now undecided.
Are you sure, and if so, how can you tell the difference?

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Plant 30 Submitted by:

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I am hoping next year to recreate the wonderful flower beds I recently saw in Brittany. One of the star plants was a tall grass which jostled with all the flowers, but I am having trouble identifying it. Please can anyone help?

From Michael, UK
Bunny ear grass

From Lisa, UK
I think this is a member of the pennisetum family, something like horse tails.
A bit vague but I hope it helps.

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Plant 29 Submitted by:

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This plant self seeded this year.
It is about 3 feet tall with what I can only describe as "bract type" protection surrounding small white "bell" type flowers. Inside each read bract there are about 6 bell white flowers.

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From Chris, UK
Looks like what my mum used to call a nutmeg bush or pheasnt bush that's the only names I know it by Hope this helps

From Marshall, UK
This plant is called Leycesteria Formosa or the Himalayan Honeysuckle after its native home.
Cut back to the ground each spring.

Plant 28 Submitted by:

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This plant is growing in my garden! Can anyone name it please?

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From Colin, UK
Steve,
Thanks for that. Thankfully we have not been at that end of the garden for a while, working in other parts. Don't know about you, but ours will be out by the end of the weekend.

From Simon, UK
Jimson Weed I think or Thorn apple a type of Datura

Plant 27 Submitted by:

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We have had the following "plant" self seed in the garden. It's driving my wife mad because she does not know what it is. It is about 4 feet across and 3 feet tall.

It has the green spikey balls at most of the stem junctions and white "horn" type flowers.
Any help appriciated

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From Steve, UK
I post the same question next to yours I got the answer from below
Regards
Steve

Dear Steve

Aha!! We found it! Quite co-incidental too: I've had another email from someone with an awfully similar description, but with a bit about the flowers too. We combined both descriptions and then combed through the pages of our British Illustrated Flora book and found a plant that fits the bill perfectly.

So...

Your plant is a Datura stramonium, commonly known as a Thorn Apple. It is originally from Central and South America and isn't common in this country as we don't usually have the weather for it. However, the weird summer weather has proved the perfect conditions and it seems to have sprouted up everywhere. It is a wild plant and is unlikely to survive our winter though, to be honest, if you have small children and/or animals I would dig it up anyway as it is an extremely poisonous relative of Deadly Nightshade.

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Plant 26 Submitted by:

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Please could tell me what this fern like puff ball I that is growing around the stem if a miniature rose bush? I have never seen anything like it before, I wandered if it was some kind if saprophyte.

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From David,UK
I suspect this is a kind of wasp gall.
Wasp galls are caused by certain kinds of wasps that lay their eggs just under the bark of trees or shrubs. I think the tree then reacts to this by growing a protective coating around the egg or larva perhaps to isolate the parasite from the plant. Different trees produce different shaped and coloured galls. The type I tend to see most of occurs on oak trees in the form of a small brown sphere about 15mm across. You can often find them with a tiny hole where the adult insect has bored its way out.

From Nick, UK
it is actually Iris Foetidissima as far as i can tell from the photos. The birds seed it around quite freely in my garden.