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I've only found this site today and I've a feeling it'll be my gardening bible! I'm getting obsessed with my garden too and its frustrating me that I don't know enough yet. Oh well they say that all good things come to those who wait, we'll see!

The rosette the flower came from will die off.Don't be afraid to break up the cluster, remove the old bits and divide them into new plants - use a compost with plenty of grit

thats very much for all the replies, its put out mind at rest

Okay, I'm probably wrong as well Dave so I guess a Platycodon grandiflora which I've had for a number of years ... but Armandii is probably correct ... Here's mine ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycodon_grandiflorus Here's Armandii's ... ...

Thanks:D thanks for all your answers! i like it too although i thought it was a baby fern starting or something. Going to keep it hopefully it will spread to other plant pots :-) Thangs again.

Thankyou all for your help, i will have a crush later today Dave and give my thoughts on what it smells like to me

Trunky you win It does indeed look like prunus avium :yess:And here is the culprit I think - in next door's garden ...It's actually two plants which I think I shoved in the same pot as I didn't know what they were, so will split them out.

I assume its new name reflects its similarity to Fumitory, apart from not being purple & having different foliage:DOH:

Welcome Richard. Looks like Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Common name dawn redwood.No tree in Britain is older than 68 years. It was known from fossil records, but only discovered in China in 1943metasequoia glyptostroboides - Google SearchP.S. It is possible that the 2 trees...

Welcome to Gardeners Corner. They are the same as the inherited one in our garden, very nice & as you say, dropping already. :th_redx:

Actually, PeterS threw in a good thought in his post. It's quite possible that due to it being a wild flower and open to cross pollination it might not be a true specimen of either varieties:D

that makes perfect sense. We had the most wonderful broccoli (now mostly eaten!) next to it"! thanks again, it has been doing my head in.

thanks SS you actually answered it a couple of weeks back when I uploaded a foto of the more mature plant just prior to it flushing. I recon that the seed must have come in from a garden centre.....which is good really cos they'll make a super border plant for next year. I shall collect the...

It`s a weed, get rid of. Unless you have a wild garden.lol

Thank you, all. I will keep an eye on this plant as it grows and the flowers open more. Now I've got a couple of possible candidates that it could be I can compare it to them when it's a bit bigger and see which one it is. Knew you'd come up with the goods.

I also think it is clerodendron The leaves look too big for weigelia. Some of our weigelias are now in their second blooming of the year and doing very well.

Yup, that looks like it. Thanks to both who answered - much appreciated

I believe these are Pericallis, a hybrid called Sennetti blue.Acorn Farms - Pericallis Hybrid

Victoria, if you look again at the pic you will see that there is a conifer behind. Infront of which is a perennial with chocolate brown leaves and yellow flowers. The yellow flowers belong to Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker. as id by BilboLysimachia ciliata Firecracker. - Google Search