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manicscousers
Hectare
Posts: 16,474
www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
unknown plant, help please
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April 23, 2007, 17:17:46 »
one of the lads on the plots found these, he gave me them..seems to think they are dahlias..eric says not, they were attached to pieces of tuber..I know very little about flowers apart from companion plants so, any ideas, please..am I growing weeds or what ?
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cornykev
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Sunny Cheshunt just outside North London
Re: unknown plant, help please
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April 23, 2007, 17:42:17 »
Looks like a hat to me. ;D ;D ;D
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MAY THE CORN BE WITH YOU.
manicscousers
Hectare
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Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #2 on:
April 23, 2007, 17:45:20 »
ha, ha, ha, where would we be without you, ck ;D
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SueSteve
Acre
Posts: 327
08/07/07
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #3 on:
April 23, 2007, 19:16:36 »
Hydranga???
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Sue
Lottie at Upton St Leonards, Gloucester
Lottie owner since 11th April 2007.
Still in the plot 36 Leeks, 1x rows parsnips, 2x rows chard, psb, broccoli, 5 rows garlic, 1 row swede, lots of onions - started in rows, but the birds had them and now they are random!!
markfield rover
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Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #4 on:
April 23, 2007, 19:20:30 »
Honesty-ish ?
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SueSteve
Acre
Posts: 327
08/07/07
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #5 on:
April 23, 2007, 19:25:10 »
Yeah, they do look like honesty!
Might just have to wait until it flowers!
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Sue
Lottie at Upton St Leonards, Gloucester
Lottie owner since 11th April 2007.
Still in the plot 36 Leeks, 1x rows parsnips, 2x rows chard, psb, broccoli, 5 rows garlic, 1 row swede, lots of onions - started in rows, but the birds had them and now they are random!!
manicscousers
Hectare
Posts: 16,474
www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #6 on:
April 23, 2007, 19:32:46 »
so, at least nobody thinks thinks they're weeds ;D..I'll just keep potting them on
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lilybetbee
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Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #7 on:
April 23, 2007, 19:42:58 »
Are the stems square or round?
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manicscousers
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Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #8 on:
April 23, 2007, 19:46:50 »
round, i think, I can have a look but it'll be tomorrow :)
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Tee Gee
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Huddersfield - Light humus rich soil
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #9 on:
April 23, 2007, 20:39:53 »
they were attached to pieces of tuber.
good possibilty then that they are Dahlias
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dandelion
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Posts: 908
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #10 on:
April 23, 2007, 20:45:53 »
Leaves don't quite look like Dahlia. And definitely not honesty. Maybe Plectranthus?
http://www.anbg.gov.au/images/photo_cd/732131822187/068.html
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manicscousers
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www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #11 on:
April 23, 2007, 20:47:48 »
trouble is, he's just taken over from someone else's plot and no one knows what he grew there, only he had a square grid like frame on the bed..dunno whether that helps ???
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dandelion
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Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #12 on:
April 23, 2007, 20:53:55 »
Probably not Plectranthus then, that's a houseplant.
Phygelius? It lookks a bit like a Fuschia and a bit like a Penstemon, and spreads through underground Rhizomes (I recently got rid of mine).
http://www.viveroseljardin.com/catalog/images/2006_0327fujifilm0021.JPG
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Eristic
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NW London (Brent)
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #13 on:
April 23, 2007, 21:43:39 »
They are figwort.
It is a wild flower, herb and very good for the bumblebees.
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manicscousers
Hectare
Posts: 16,474
www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #14 on:
April 24, 2007, 19:44:43 »
Quote from: lilybetbee on April 23, 2007, 19:42:58
Are the stems square or round?
do you know something i don't know, lily..the stems are square and woodish
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lilybetbee
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Posts: 14
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #15 on:
April 24, 2007, 22:37:41 »
Labiate family have square stems (if I remember correctly from many moons ago!) and it looked that sort of leaf.
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Eristic
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NW London (Brent)
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #16 on:
April 24, 2007, 23:16:27 »
It's Figwort. Scrophularia nodosa.
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nell
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Posts: 21
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #17 on:
April 24, 2007, 23:22:48 »
Yep - I reckon scrophularia too - esp with square stems
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manicscousers
Hectare
Posts: 16,474
www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #18 on:
April 25, 2007, 18:33:26 »
thanks, guys, I'll carry on growing it then plant it in a bucket outside :)
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Rhubarb Thrasher
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Dark Side Of The Rhubarb
Re: unknown plant, help please
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Reply #19 on:
April 25, 2007, 19:11:24 »
handy to have around if you go down with
scofula
, otherwise known as the King's Evil
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