Identification Area

I think you are right Bob Thank you. It has the fluffy bits.:gnthb:

:D ... I'm eating them ... I have six trusses and more on the way ... :yho:

Thanks chaps!!

Thanks Walnut, I'll be getting some seeds of this for next year!!:luv:

Thanks all. I'll rip it out tomorrow. I'm glad I don't have to risk the Round Up on it, as it is in close proximity to some of my actual chosen plants, although the Round-Up is still employed, as I still keep finding the odd bindweed coming up.It's interesting about the seeds staying viable...

Its a teasel alright, it was probably there last year as a small plant and wasn't noticed.

Yes, so it is! :dh: My goodness though, it's very similar to Viburnum isn't it? Thanks again to the great experts here. :thumb:

It's a cultivar of Geranium maculatum, possibly Geranium maculatum Beth Chatto, or G. m. Espresso.

You were probably thinking of the sub shrub Vinca Major.Pot ones come in all colours, they don't grow outside here very well as they need warm humid summers. I remember seeing large beds of them in Washington, as you would see Impatiens here.

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mine aren't!

Many thanks Pete, I think you're right. Just looked it up and they DO prefer Acid soils.Cheers!!xx

If it's not them Newbiegreen I'm happy for you. They used to turn up in my last garden every year in May and those catterpillar like larvae totally skeletalised everything they were on. Polygonatums were what they liked best.Maybe they're just flies, flies. One year we had a big outbreak of...

Well done Lavender - thats one I have never come across.

That could be awkward these can be monsters (pretty monsters at that:hehe when they get going

Thank you for your help. I am convinced it is a type of saxifrage. Saxifrage rosacea looks exactly it... ... would you agree?

Well done Lyn.:thumb:

NOt sure-and I am certainly not one to id plants-but thge fourth looks like a pieris, and doesn't look sick to me.

It's a collage, flinty. That's why they're evenly-spaced. I use Picasa for collagesThanks for your replyNick

Thank you Victoria. Please ignore the rusty metal pole holding the plant up - not my idea!