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    The first is one that I saw yesterday morning in a street where I had parked my car:

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    The second is at the back of my garden:

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    Its leaves sort of reminded me of a mallow of some sort, but are furry to the touch?
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    First one is Osteospermum, and I think you are right regarding the second, it's a mallow of some kind, I tend to consider it as a weed.:smile:
     
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      You could make the traditional Welsh soup dish of Melokhia from the Mallow leaves :)
       
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        I like mallows generally - be interesting to see which it is :)

        Osteospermum - I didn't know they were climbing/trailing! Hmmm..... must try and get me some of those
         
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        I've got a feeling the Osteospermum is not the typical type that is grown as a perennial in the UK.
        Looks to me more like the type that is often sold as a summer bedding plant, and it has survived the winter.
         
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          Quite an achievement for it then, as we had more frost this winter than we have had for a few years :)
           
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            Well yes if I'm right that is :biggrin:

            I've got a trailing type of osteospermum but it's different to that one.
             
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