Help with flower ID's please

Started by Growing4twins, July 14, 2011, 15:25:03

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Growing4twins

Hi guys,  I brought a couple of packets of mixed seeds in the spring, a couple have popped up & im quite pleased but i have no idea what they are  ???  ???, can you please help me out??  Right lets hope i can remember how to post pictures  :P



This was the first to flower so about 3 weeks ago, unfortunatly its dying off now.



Sorry about the bluredness of this pic.



Different angle & not so blurred, my mom thinks its some kind of wild orchid.



I love this little flower, on one plant it had pink, purple, blue & a yellow flower  :)

Will these self seed for next year???

This last plant i inherited from the previous owners, it popped up out of nowhere & thankfully is in a part of the garden i havent tackled yet.



I love how i manage to get the leaves in the background in focus but not the flower lol



Better luck with this pic, cant wait for it to open!!
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Growing4twins

Is loving how the twins are really getting into planting seeds this year!  two for the price of one!! :D http://i46.tinypic.com/zy7ww8.jpg[/img]

Bugloss2009

plant 2 looks like (ivy leaved) toadflax
3 corncockle
4 platycodon grandiflorus

1 Flax

Robert_Brenchley

2 and 3 ivy leaved toadflax; I remember it growing all over some old walls in Oxford.

Growing4twins

thx 4 ur speedy responce guys, im just wondering if the 1st picture is actually flax.  All the pics ive seen of flax the flowers are completely blue.  These have a white spot on each petal close to the base.  its not to easy to see on the pics, but if you look closely.x.
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Alex133

I think your first picture is a phacelia, maybe p campanularia which grows about 9" high. The flowers are a stunning blue.

dimmo

i think pictures 2 & 3 are Aquilegia

dimmo

Robert_Brenchley

Easily solved. What size is the plant? Do the ivy-like leaves in the background belong to it?

pigeonseed

I don't think that 2 and 3 look like ivy leaved toadflax, because they're held very upright, whereas ivy leaved etc is trailing and low.

Growing4twins

Ok, i see where your coming from with the ivy leaved toadflax, the flowers are the same shape but 90% of the pics ive seen on our old friend google the flowers are lilac not pink.  Also the leaves are not ivy like in the slightest (the ivy like leaves in the background are actually ivy lol) more like really thin strips of grass coming of the stem, I'll get a pic in the morning.  I think its about 8 inchs tall.
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Alex133

1. Phacelia
2. Linaria
3. Virginia Stock
4. Platycodon

Growing4twins

I think we may have solved the mystery, thanks Alex133. the pictures on google look the same as my 1's down the garden.  Im amazed @ how many different varities of there are.  Thanks for all of your help guys :0))
Is loving how the twins are really getting into planting seeds this year!  two for the price of one!! :D http://i46.tinypic.com/zy7ww8.jpg[/img]

Growing4twins

I thought i would just carry on this link rather than make a new 1,  Ive got a few more plants that i could do with some help with. :D



Ive got a few of these & i think they are gorgeous!!  Do they self seed???  Please say yes :/



This is another inherited plant, i found it behind the big beastie bush that got the chop over the weekend.  It is on what i can only describe as a bamboo type stem, i say stem but stands over 7 foot tall.  Any idea what it is ??? ?

Cheers Guys :)

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Uncle_Filthster

Bottom one is Himalayan honeysuckle.  I sometimes encounter it as a garden escape

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