Identification Area

The first one is a tuberous begonia, CROF, but the second, well it's difficult to say until it flowers! It could be a wallflower or something else in the cruciferae family.

I grow Garnet as it is about the hardiest Penstemon you can grow which is important from the point of view of where I live (in Scotland) It's not nearly as showy as Lucifer or as tall. If you wanted to grow a showy penstemon of similar colour to Lucifer then something like King George. This...

Looks like fox to me too, but not expert on these things..

Slime mold, that's definitely it! Never heard of it before. Sounds revolting and looks even worse..... dog's vomit describes it perfectly ! I read Sonya's link, really weird stuff. I had to rush out just now to check it's progress, in case it had walked off somewhere. It still looks...

I wasn't very clear - RNRS is royal national rose society, HQ is in an area of St Albans whose name I can't remember, I'm afraid. When I worked as a volunteer there, they frequently got ID requests. The flower would help immensely though!Whoops - just googled them - apparently gone into...

@shiney , great display - I'll have some next year !

Sulphur Surprise – Chicken of the Woods

Thanks peeps, been looking on t'internet for ages but couldn't find anything. Just looked at RHS site and they reckon it's best in loam or sand so I'm surprised it's growing in the garden it being clay

No thanks to all for the replies as this is all new to me first year of this gardening very steep learning curve and expensive too, just doing lots of reading and trying to figure what goes with each other etc thanks all above

Its ideal for what I want Palustris, it can spread were it wants on the gravel area it will make nice ground cover .

It appears there's more than one variety of Bullace, inluding Golden (AKA 'White'), that grows hereabouts (although most people have never seen it), and there's also 'Black' Bullace which could be the one in your image. And there's others, including some hybrids, and it's not help by locals who...

Couple of persicarias here with agastaches,,heleniums, anemones

Hi 2nd-bassoon ,It's a Plumbago ( common name Leadwort ) . Probably P. Auriculata .

Wow! I echo M's words wholeheartedly. Lovely job!

Hi @HarryS - sorry, by 'seen it done' I mean on Youtube . Many years ago, when I used to watch 'Groundforce', Charlie Dimmock always used fibreglass fatsia leaf fountains. They don't seem to make those now (shame) but there are plenty of people doing it with cement. And T Rex leaves are...

You probably aren't eating enough of it.

There are some great specimens of eucryphua in the Edinburgh botanic gardens - it's s fantastic plant

Looks similar foliage to Geranium macrorrhizum ; a rapidly colonising species .

Thank you Silver Surfer and Heucherella, that was a quick response.

They're Centauria Montana . Perennial Cornflower , they're a good perennial ( not a weed ), flowers with a big flush around April/May and then if you keep deadheading them they'll flower on and off all Summer. They also come in shades of purple, pink and white.