Identification Area

You are just so right!!! I just put spirea into my search and came up with this link http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?Genus=Spiraea&Species=douglasii&Comp=Overviewwhich looks exactly like my photo!!! Brilliant, thank you

Excellent, thanks all.

I have good king henry in my garden, in a very sunny position. I've had a look and the leaves do look very similar in shape and texture, but are much smaller. Mine already have spikes on so I will know what to look for. Thanks both. Dendy, I have been looking under lime trees for saplings/...

Incidently, euphorbia sap is an irritant which should not be taken lightly. Wash it off should you get it on your skin, and keep well away from eyes and other tender body parts.

Hi, It looks a bit like Herb Robert, though the flowers are usually a bit pinker, I think. Also I don't think Herb Robert has a very nice scent so you may be able to tell by giving it a sniff..

Yes definitely Miss Bateman, mine is flowering too at the moment, has much appreciated being liberated from its' pot and ignored as you say, Hornbeam.

It was Churchill's idea to evacuate an entire (but small) village and let the army use it for D-Day landing practice for house to house fighting, I think some tanks may have had a hand too! It's an erie place but interesting (and free)Don't go when it raining -- there's not much shelter! :D :D

Our tree is full of little boomerang shaped seed pods, a bit like wings.A few years ago we had a couple that got quite big, but they disappered before we had a chance to collect them. They tend to blend in with the leaves as they are both the same colour,but don't know if they drop off before...

Just had a look on Google, and it says that the best method for propagation is by grafting onto another Magnolia.Seed can be sown fresh in the Autumn, but if successful,they can take up to 20 years to flower.Hope you are young enough to wait that long!!Good LuckKandyfloss

:D Oh well! I've seen worse looking weeds so they can stay in the bit of ground I've just cleared of Grape Hyacinth - Muscari (some hopes!) They can fight it out between them for now.

Thanks elainefiz Mine is a bit squashed also but hey the cats love it.

What is this tiny flower growing in nearby grassland?

Don't encourage serpentphobia T, we only have three and 90% of the population have never seen one and probably only 2/3% have seen an Adder.I'm a little biased here as I love and have kept retiles and amphibians sinceI was about 10. :D

Yours could do with some grub water and looser soil if its to stay in the pot. I had one in a pot and they don't like their roots capped in a heavy JI3 mix. Some pics of mine.

Do you prune them? There's a question here which hasn't had an answer: http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=000011;p=1#000000 Thought you might know!

It is a liverwort.

In addition, aubretia is the smallest flower and leaf, about 1/2", campanula is bigger, maybe 1", and vinca is the biggest. Aubretia and campanula form flower carpets with leaves only visible round the edges, vinca is not so densely flowered.

That's just what I need at the moment! I've lots of empty borders.

Hornbeam and Fran - thanks for info. It seems to be running wild at the moment but will save some seeds.

last one def sisyrinchium striatum - not sure about cultivars of the rest, but think clematis could be C. rosemoor'Evipo002' - lovely name! http://images.google.com/images?q=clematis+rosemoor+evipo002&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en [ 18. June 2006, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: dendrobium ]