Identification Area

Spotted this today a wild blackberry that had been cut to the ground. ⁹

It’s been absolutely years since I last saw a furry caterpillar @Selleri ! ( that’s what we used to call them). It certainly brought back some memories when I saw your pic….. thanks!

I was too idle to wade through the books looking for it. Sad person!

Unfortunately, this one isn’t in our garden, it’s in a hedgerow nearby and has been chopped back a lot. But I’m pretty sure it has the lace cap type flowers, yes.

Good morning, thank you noisette47 and pete, I think both pots have had their day, there are probably a dozen more pots etc, buried in the undergrowth so time to get started on them, it's a tiny garden so now we start hacking down the jungle and see what else we find

Neither varieties are work intensive. Fruiticosa needs very little attention. We rarely need to do any maintenance on it. When new it will need watering in dry weather and apart from that we don't do anything but say hello to it.Russelliana only needs a small amount of maintenance. Yet...

Thank you all

Baalmaiden: I looked up Burncoose on Google Maps and that they are based in Redruth. Would be worth a visit. Thank you for that.We have a smaller front garden and a larger back garden. Everything is done for now. Next will be to trim the evergreens front and back in mid May, so I hope the...

Thank you - I will have a look around and see what is available. I do have a rather large gap where I've hacked a lot of stuff away.

I bought a plant from Millais for my sisters birthday recently. Very pleased with the service and the plant was a lovely size and quality

We never planted it but as others have said it can be a nightmare. It is over all the garden and we have to keep digging it out to hopefully stop it spreading even more.

Good evening @Silver surfer @JennyJB and thank you my friends for your I D its very much appreciated I shall order one on line this evening

It looks like Lactiflora to me. I bought Pritchards variety ( pale bluey mauve) some years back. It self seeds a fair amount but some of the seedlings are not true to the parent and flower a sort of creamy colour. Still nice so not a big issue.

Pretty sure I tried sowing sunflowers in these barrels last year and they didn't germinate, but I'd have thought they would have rotted over winter. Could be a bird - we do feed them a mix of nuts and seeds etc.

This is your pic enlarged. Excuse me ...but earlier you did not even know this was Pieris.?!Pieris Mountain Fire ....has darker deeper red leaves leaves as they emerge. It looks very different from Pieris Forest Flame...see my pic below. Quote RHS......'Mountain Fire' is a bushy...