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Get help identifying a plant here. Post images of plants you are trying to identify and give us a description of the plant. Please take a few images and post them all into the same 'forum topic thread'. Images should be close-up of flowers, leaves, fruit and far away to give a sense of the scale and shape of the plant. We will do our best for you to help identify it!

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What is this plant please?

Question from Sue Gallacher

I see this plant everyday and would love to know what it is as the flowers are stunning!! Thanks

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  • Posted: Thu. 9th February 2012 17:29
  • Last reply: Thu. 9th February 2012 21:56

Identify this ground cover plant

Comment from Jan Helle

It has taken ages to take a hold and has sporadic flowers for most of the summer which are tiny - but seen in the photograph look like miniature dianthus!?

Please what is it?

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  • Posted: Sat. 4th February 2012 20:27
  • Last reply: Mon. 6th February 2012 19:10

Identify an iris

Comment from Jan Helle

This iris was given to me by a friend who was cleaning out his pond - so this now lives in my pond. It flowers in early summer and the flowers are quite short-lived.

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  • Posted: Sat. 4th February 2012 19:31
  • Last reply: Wed. 8th February 2012 13:34

Plant Identification Needed

General post from Frances Dyers

Hello Everyone! Could you please help me identify this plant? I was told it was Atropa Belladonna (which I am frantically searching for) but when I took it home I analysed it and realised it looked nothing like deadly nightshade. I must've been blinded by my momentary excitement. If you could please help me it would be a great help. It has thorns on the top most part of the stem and right along the midrib of the leaf. The leaf has a more-or-less obovate apex and a lobed margin with a wedge-shaped base. It has no scent. See pictures for a clearer idea. Thank you! And Happy Gardening!

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  • Posted: Fri. 3rd February 2012 19:05
  • Last reply: Sat. 4th February 2012 11:52

Plant for identification

Question from Geoff Hopkins

Bought this at a garden centre a couple of years ago, had no label.
Flowered for the first time last year in October, very interesting flowers.
Bought it for it's interesting foliage so the flowers are a bonus.
Does anyone recognise it ?
Thanks in anticipation,
Geoff.

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  • Posted: Thu. 2nd February 2012 20:07
  • Last reply: Fri. 3rd February 2012 10:43

Identification request

Question from Judi the Gardener

I photographed this plant at Cambridge University Botanical Garden. Lots of this plant around the garden, great ground cover and wonderful winter colour, planted near pathways and under trees. Do you know this plant?

With thanks and best wishes, Judi.. :-)

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  • Posted: Tue. 17th January 2012 16:45
  • Last reply: Wed. 18th January 2012 08:50

climber with very blue flowers

Comment from Jenny Green

Can anyone tell me what this is? Photo taken earlier this month in Hua Hin, Thailand.

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  • Posted: Mon. 16th January 2012 13:22
  • Last reply: Tue. 17th January 2012 10:53

Clematis ID

Question from john

My next door neighbour has a large evergreen, deep purple flowering clematis. As it hangs over our fence I saw it as my right to take a cutting a couple of years ago. I planted it out and forgot about it, not expecting it to flower or do much for a couple of years. A planted it near an umbrella bamboo which over ran the space and swamped it and slowed its progress. Having decided its time for action regarding my bamboo I descovered the clematis growing but not thriving and decided to dig it up and move it. I have no idea what it is, all I know is that its evergreen, shinny leaves, deep purple flowers (not sure of time of year), quite a woody stem (shrub-like). Next doors has some substatial buds on it at the moment which would suggest Spring flowering to me. Sadly I forgot to take a photo at the weekend. Any ideas ?

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  • Posted: Mon. 9th January 2012 11:14
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Does anyone know what sort of peony this is?

Question from Jan Helle

I have just added my photo to Paeonia 'Buckeye Belle' (Peony 'Buckeye Belle') and realised that it is not that peony - so what is it?

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  • Posted: Sun. 8th January 2012 20:20
  • Last reply: Wed. 11th January 2012 20:11

Do you recognise this plant?

Comment from Nedeljko

Please...Can anyone tell me what this plant is.

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  • Posted: Mon. 2nd January 2012 09:41
  • Last reply: Sat. 7th January 2012 23:38

 

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