Perennial ID - in pairs!

Hi all, here are some more more or less tricky perennials to compare to one another - and you might say: oh, no, not again! :wink: If it does nothing but serves as an encouragement to take a good stroll in the garden, well, it'll be worth it all the same... :thumb:

Be careful: numbering starts now with a zero, due to my own silly file management...

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And the last three... :hehe:

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Ok here goes!

0, Dunno.. looks like a mint.. smell it and see.
1, Verbena bonariensis.... definately
2, Perovskia, possibly
3, looks familiar... but can't place it
4 Saponaria officionalis.. soapwort. def
5, Astilbe.. def
6 Duno... but looks interesting
7 Dunno'
8, Apple mint... smell it and see!
9, Bugle, Ajuga repans.. def
10, 11, 12, All cranesbills of different types.

Basically they're all nice perenials that look after themselves

 

0 Lamiaceae family - looks identical to Salvia sclarea - except for the pink tinge
1 yes Verbena
2 The silvery aspect says it could be Perovskia - but its too late to go and have a look
3 Centranthus
4 I have Saponaria - but I wouldn't have recognised it
5 Astilbe
6 possibly Filipendula
7 -
8 another member of Lamiaceae family
9 Bugle
10,11 and 12 all look like Geraniums - but no 11 is funny - may not be

 

I can't play this time. I didn't see this thread last night and the images have disappeared today :(

 

Just copy mine... and hope no-one notices!

 

Ooops, I'm terribly sorry but dunno what happened - the whole outlook of the forum seems to be different and the attachments must have fallen victim to some substantial changes as well...

Please be patient, I'll try to find a way, though it might take some time...

 

Yes, but they might not be right:wink:

 

How very dare you!

 

There's no news so far about the vanishing attachments, so here are the pics, again, just for Aaron: http://picasaweb.google.com/kodelottem/GCAlbum#

Tomorrow I'll put the names into that place as well, perhaps they won't disappear from there... Thanks for your patience. :flag:

 

Right....

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2) Verbena Bonariensis
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4) Helenium (wild guess)
5) Red Valerian (the others have written the proper name!)
6) Astilbe
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9) Apple Mint
10) Ajuga
11) Cranesbill
12) Cranesbill
13) Cranesbill

Oh dear, these ones are difficult!

 

The names are all up in the above link, and you got about 9 of the plants right in this round, congratulations!

Thank you everyone for all the work you put into this little game! :thmb:

 

Thanks Agatha for all your work - good fun. :gnthb: But things are growing so fast now that they don't look the same as they did a week ago.

 

Nice one.

Although that Perovskia doesn't look like one....any my Filipendula is a lot more advanced than that!