UK gardening - new to gardening please help me!

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new to gardening please help me!

cambsgirl

2005-10-24, 5:21 pm

also new to this

please find all the pictures

a very suprised newly keen gardener, i have brought my first house and
there are lots of plant thats i cant identify that i would love to know
what they are.
i have taken pics and wonder if anyone could help please

there are lots of pics, and i am not sure if i have attached them
properly, but i would really really appreciate anyones help

the first one is like a bush

the 2nd and 3rd are the same plant

the 4th looks like a rhubarb patch to me its so big, but i know it
isnt

the 5th and 6th are the same plant

the 7th has tiny tiny flowers, and there is another plant the same but
just with pink flowers not pictured

the 8th did have a few pink flowers on till i lopped them all off.

whether this is any help or not i dont know, forgive my ignorance, but
im still learning.

thanks

Amanda

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cambsgirl

garden spider

2005-10-24, 5:21 pm

cambsgirl Wrote:
> and the last 3 photos
>
> a very suprised newly keen gardener, i have brought my first house and
> there are lots of plant thats i cant identify that i would love to know
> what they are.
> i have taken pics and wonder if anyone could help please
>
> there are lots of pics, and i am not sure if i have attached them
> properly, but i would really really appreciate anyones help
>
> the first one is like a bush
>
> the 2nd and 3rd are the same plant
>
> the 4th looks like a rhubarb patch to me its so big, but i know it
> isnt
>
> the 5th and 6th are the same plant
>
> the 7th has tiny tiny flowers, and there is another plant the same but
> just with pink flowers not pictured
>
> the 8th did have a few pink flowers on till i lopped them all off.
>
> whether this is any help or not i dont know, forgive my ignorance, but
> im still learning.
>
> thanks
>
> Amanda

The first one looks like a spirea
The fourth is Bergenia crassifolia
The seventh is Primula vulgaris
The eighth is Geranium

I am not quite sure with the others.
Hope this helps.

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garden spider

kevin

2005-10-24, 6:25 pm

cambsgirl Wrote:
> also new to this
>
> please find all the pictures
>

oops.. link for photos: http://tinyurl.com/9xtde

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kevin

Sue

2005-10-24, 8:21 pm

"garden spider" <garden.spider.1xfa80@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote
> The first one looks like a spirea
> The fourth is Bergenia crassifolia
> The seventh is Primula vulgaris
> The eighth is Geranium
>
> I am not quite sure with the others.
> Hope this helps.

Think 2 and 3 may well be a Penstemon.

Agree Spirea, Bergenia and Geranium but wouldn't think the pink and white
one is Primula, the leaves don't look like a primrose type - possibly a
Verbena?

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Sue

Janet Galpin

2005-10-24, 8:21 pm

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Your second and third are a Penstemon (possibly Penstemon 'Garnet'?)
The fourth is a Bergenia (known as Elephant's ears) but it's not easy to
say which variety until it flowers.
Your fifth and seventh look like the same so I'm not quite sure what's
happened here as you seem to imply they're different. Perhaps the photos
are coming up in a different order
Janet G

Kay

2005-10-25, 6:21 am

In article <435d6685$0$43234$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net>,
Sue <naiad_zapspam@tiscali.co.uk> writes
>
>"garden spider" <garden.spider.1xfa80@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote
>
>Think 2 and 3 may well be a Penstemon.
>
>Agree Spirea, Bergenia and Geranium but wouldn't think the pink and white
>one is Primula, the leaves don't look like a primrose type - possibly a
>Verbena?
>
I'm getting completely bewildered and wondering whether we're all seeing
the pics in the same order! I'm looking at the gardenbanter link
provided by Kevin.

What I am seeing is:

No 1 is a bush with no flowers showing, and I'd agree with spirea.

Nos 2&3 'dark pink bells' and 'dark pink bells leaves' could be
penstemon.

No4 'glossy leaves' looks like bergenia - should have pink flowers in
spring.

Nos 5, 6, 7 'pink mess', 'pink flowers' 'pink mess 2' have me stumped.
The flowers look superficially like Viscaria but the leaves are wrong -
the leaves look like geranium or (or astrantia). But the presence of one
of these leaves in 'pink mess 2' makes it look as if the leaves in no 6
belong to 'pink mess'.

No 8 'pink and white' is again pink flowered, and looks like Verbena.
But this does not tie up with the OPs comment "the 8th did have a few
pink flowers on till i lopped them all off." So did that comment refer
not to no 8 but to no 6? And does no 6 not belong to no 5 and no 7?

There's nothing here that looks remotely like Primula vulgaris. What I'm
seeing as no 8 doesn't look at all like a geranium (though no 6 does).
And the one that looks like a Verbena is no 8 not no 7.

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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Sue

2005-10-25, 8:21 am

"Kay" <kay@scarboro.demon.co.uk> wrote
<snip>

> Nos 5, 6, 7 'pink mess', 'pink flowers' 'pink mess 2' have me stumped.
> The flowers look superficially like Viscaria but the leaves are wrong -
> the leaves look like geranium or (or astrantia). But the presence of one
> of these leaves in 'pink mess 2' makes it look as if the leaves in no 6
> belong to 'pink mess'.
>
> No 8 'pink and white' is again pink flowered, and looks like Verbena.
> But this does not tie up with the OPs comment "the 8th did have a few
> pink flowers on till i lopped them all off." So did that comment refer
> not to no 8 but to no 6? And does no 6 not belong to no 5 and no 7?
>
> There's nothing here that looks remotely like Primula vulgaris. What I'm
> seeing as no 8 doesn't look at all like a geranium (though no 6 does).
> And the one that looks like a Verbena is no 8 not no 7.

Yes I think cambsgirl's last few pics ended up out of the order she was
expecting, which is why I referred to 'pink and white' (ie the last one on
the page) as Verbena rather than give it a number.

Looking at the 'pink mess' ones again, the flowers remind me of some kind
of Oxalis, altho the stems are a bit straggly. Could that be a possibility?
There is a blurry leaf to the top left in one pic that could be a tattered
'four leaved clover' type to go with it.

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Sue

cambsgirl

2005-10-25, 5:21 pm

Sue Wrote:
> "Kay" kay@scarboro.demon.co.uk wrote
> snip
>
> Nos 5, 6, 7 'pink mess', 'pink flowers' 'pink mess 2' have me
> stumped.
> The flowers look superficially like Viscaria but the leaves are wrong
> -
> the leaves look like geranium or (or astrantia). But the presence of
> one
> of these leaves in 'pink mess 2' makes it look as if the leaves in no
> 6
> belong to 'pink mess'.
>
> No 8 'pink and white' is again pink flowered, and looks like Verbena.
> But this does not tie up with the OPs comment "the 8th did have a few
> pink flowers on till i lopped them all off." So did that comment
> refer
> not to no 8 but to no 6? And does no 6 not belong to no 5 and no 7?
>
> There's nothing here that looks remotely like Primula vulgaris. What
> I'm
> seeing as no 8 doesn't look at all like a geranium (though no 6
> does).
> And the one that looks like a Verbena is no 8 not no 7.
>
> Yes I think cambsgirl's last few pics ended up out of the order she
> was
> expecting, which is why I referred to 'pink and white' (ie the last one
> on
> the page) as Verbena rather than give it a number.
>
> Looking at the 'pink mess' ones again, the flowers remind me of some
> kind
> of Oxalis, altho the stems are a bit straggly. Could that be a
> possibility?
> There is a blurry leaf to the top left in one pic that could be a
> tattered
> 'four leaved clover' type to go with it.
>
> --
> Sue

ok everyone thanks for your responses, my original posts were edited
bacuse it wouldnt let me put all 8 pics in one go and 3 posts have been
combined and i believe they have been taken out of order

so therefore as you look at the pics

6 should be 8
8 should be 7
7 should be 6

but it seems all are identified now, well done everyone for
unscrambling an even more complex question than the first one

many thanks

ps anyone got any care advice for these plants? we have been here 4
weeks and i feel i should be 'doing something' to them............

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cambsgirl

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