This shrub was flowering this week all along the Oxford canal. It's about two to three feet in height, grows on the 'wild' non towpath side. Grey green leaves, yellow and orange flower like a tiny aquilegia. Does anyone know what it is please? Sorry for definition, all pics taken at 4 mph :P
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if you wear the glasses of my other three quarters (he's bigger than me) they sort of come into focus ;D
is it a mimulus, such as mimulus moschatus the musk plant
the only other suggestion I could make is that it is orange balsam (one of the impatiens group)
very nice whatever it is :)
Thank you calendula, glad you have the all seeing eyes 8)
I checked both mimulus and orange balsam, and the scale is right, but it's not quite the same plant. It's puzzling - so prolific, but I don't recall having seen it before ::)
have a look at this one - orange balsam is the impatiens capensis, looks very similar to me - have just tried it at 4 mph ;D
http://www.usi.edu/science/biology/TwinSwamps/Impatiens_capensis.htm