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AndrewB
Half Acre
Posts: 138
Plant ID
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June 08, 2006, 17:27:46 »
is this a weed?
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vee
Acre
Posts: 326
Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester
Re: Plant ID
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June 08, 2006, 17:31:58 »
No, it's a foxglove and looks as if it's a white one. They can be a bit like weeds if they are where you don't want them, but are very easy to pull up. I love them.
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AndrewB
Half Acre
Posts: 138
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #2 on:
June 08, 2006, 20:12:00 »
Thanks I suspected it might be. I wish I had a few more in the garden
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Palustris
Hectare
Posts: 4,362
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #3 on:
June 08, 2006, 20:19:14 »
You will have next year, each flower can produce a million seeds!
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Gardening is the great leveller.
Mrs Ava
Hectare
Posts: 11,743
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #4 on:
June 09, 2006, 18:33:14 »
Yup, I have several varieties, as well as the common one in the garden, and they are everywhere. Not complaining though! They are now springing up around the allotment, maybe from the compost heap. Again, no complaint, I have been cutting those and they look amazing in a large vase!
When they open, take a really good long look inside the flowers. Amazing!
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,898
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #5 on:
June 09, 2006, 22:51:40 »
A weed is only a plant in the wrong place!
I have foxgloves in one or two strange places!
;D
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AndrewB
Half Acre
Posts: 138
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #6 on:
June 10, 2006, 13:27:48 »
Its amazing how that foxgove got there its quite far from where I have had them in the past and just in a bit of gravel in the patio. Tempted to move it as we are having a new gate put in very near to it but worried it might not survive. Would have to pay £5-£6 for it in a garden centre
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,898
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #7 on:
June 10, 2006, 22:40:43 »
It really won't take to transplanting, not in this heat anyway, I transplant some against my back wall on the allotment, but they are never happy there, it is way too hot/sunny for them!
;D
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valmarg
Hectare
Posts: 2,365
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #8 on:
June 11, 2006, 23:05:08 »
Sorry AB, but I don't think your plant is a foxglove. Foxgloves have a base florette of leaves, and throw up a flower spike from this base. Your photo is of a plant with leaves quite a way up the stem. I would guess that this plant could be a member of the campanula family, but doubtfully a foxglove.
Happy to be proved wrong!
valmarg
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,898
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
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Reply #9 on:
June 12, 2006, 22:48:50 »
Def. a foxglove, the flowers should be open by now, and a photo of that would settle it!
8)
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Mrs Ava
Hectare
Posts: 11,743
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #10 on:
June 13, 2006, 14:26:18 »
Absolutely a foxglove. I grow common, lutea and a couple of teeny flowered species foxys, and they are all slightly different, but that is defo a foxglove. Some of mine from the allotment had leaves up the stems to the base of the flowers, which is handy when I cut them for a vase as they support eachother nicely.
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Jill
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Posts: 860
S E London
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #11 on:
June 13, 2006, 22:51:12 »
Indisputably a foxglove, I should say. All of mine (white ones) have leaves going up to the base of the flowers, per EJ but my campanulas are flowering on stems some way above their leaves.
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flowerlady
Hectare
Posts: 1,422
"Tug-o-Weeed!"
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #12 on:
June 14, 2006, 19:24:53 »
I had a foxglove once called - not sure - springwood or spotiswood??? :-\
... it was an unuasal find with two pointy bits on the lower petal of the flower - obviously with spots
Any one know it and the name!! ? ???
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To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and time to die: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. Ecclesiastes, 3:1-2
ruud
Hectare
Posts: 1,095
I love Allotments 4 All
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #13 on:
June 14, 2006, 19:48:59 »
They are a little bit toxic,but i love them too,got them also in the garden.They are even in a hanging basket from last year.
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flowerlady
Hectare
Posts: 1,422
"Tug-o-Weeed!"
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #14 on:
June 14, 2006, 20:16:47 »
I've found it "Saltwood"
http://www.crocus.co.uk/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=2000003653&affiliate=td
would anybody have one of these that I could have some seed from ??? :-\ :)
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To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and time to die: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. Ecclesiastes, 3:1-2
Robert_Brenchley
Hectare
Posts: 15,593
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #15 on:
June 14, 2006, 21:10:12 »
It's more than 'a little poisonous' but it produces a very important heart medicine; there's a page on its history here
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/Wilson/481/medbot/bot2.htm
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Birmingham UK
http://thisandthat-robert.blogspot.com/
AndrewB
Half Acre
Posts: 138
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #16 on:
June 16, 2006, 19:35:10 »
There you go - and its a pink one
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Jill
Hectare
Posts: 860
S E London
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #17 on:
June 16, 2006, 22:16:28 »
Loverley! And if you want some seeds for a white one let me know by PM.
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honeybee
Hectare
Posts: 1,409
Cheshire
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #18 on:
June 17, 2006, 19:40:16 »
Beautiful. I see you got your gate too ;D
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AndrewB
Half Acre
Posts: 138
Re: Plant ID
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Reply #19 on:
June 18, 2006, 11:11:52 »
Yes thanks to excellent and careful joiner
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