Identification Area

Thanks Pualstris, I will. Going on my client's garden you're very right, it was everywhere. I like to have some native wildflowers in my garden, but I'll be keeping an eye on it! Cheers x

Pyracantha, the flowers are in small bunches down the stems.Hawthorn, tend to be in bigger bunches, what do you think?

Anybody recognise this little beauty? I have lost the name :(

Hi Liz, yes, it definately looks like it, thanks again x

Looks like Red Clover (Trifolium pratense). It's a wild, native species, but as Palustris says, it's used as a green manure crop. Famers where I come from used to turn animals out into the fields quite often, too, before ploughing it in. Rather strong, woody stems though, so it can be a bit of a...

Thanks Celia,i shall def take some cuttings.

Hi, all - just found this thread! Looks to me like a sawfly - there are several which have wasp-like colouring, and the fact that a number of pupae were found in one place would tally with that. I'm pretty sure it's not a true wasp, and the only other similar insects I can find are a couple of...

Just the sort of thing I do, K-G! :D

The top one looks like on of the tree heathers Erica arborea. The middle one is not a fern, but rather a New Zealand plant called Acaena. It is probably A. microphylla, but since there are a 100 species and a fair number of hybrids it is hard to be positive. The seed heads are awful things, they...

A very pretty, healthy looking plant. It definately looks similar to Christmas Cactus, but like Mel says, the leaves are wrong. Unfamiliar with Epiphyllum, are they related? My Mum has a couple of outstanding Christmas Cactus and when they've finished flowering will move them to another room in...

PW check out my reply to you topic post 'seeds of shamroc' Wed 2nd May.

Thank you glenw, A monkey flower it is.

For elainefiz. The plant has been in for over 10 years.

Thanks John, I'll look into it a bit more, but have to say this current ( no pun intented ) dry spell is knocking the growth rate of my Blackcurrant plant.Maybe it will rain soon ?

Hi newbi, Lily beetle? lots of people been complaining about them, all the best

This sounds like the lily beetle but strange because it will only eat lilies. The only other red beetle I know is the soldier beetle which eats a wide variety of plants, but it has a red head and feelers. :confused:

I thought it looked familiar, well done nicsdad's mum :D

Be careful handling that brute! The thorns are vicious!! I know this only too well.... :rolleyes:

Yes that's it! Thanks Blackthorn. Just read that it can be pruned hard which is good as it's around 1.5m tall at the minute.

It looks a bit like a Fittonia argyroneura to me.If so, it is a creeper and requires an abundance of water Spring through Autumn and little in the winter. It also does not like direct sun.