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Plant ID help please
Hi everyone
You have all been really helpful with identifying plants for me but I currently have a few that I have been searching to try and ID and just can't...can anyone help?
This has recently popped up in the front garden and is really pretty, a bit orchid like in it's markings

This one is strange to me. The flower spikes are very lilly like but I can't decide if it could be a lilly?

I have no idea with this either but there is lots in the front garden-weed??

This is a very out of control shrub but the bees love it so I don't want to cut it back now, but would like to ID it so I can see when/how it can be cut back.


This is one of the most striking flowers in our garden-the picture doesn't do the colour justice. It looks like it's been coloured with a bright pink highlighter pen!

Finally, I think this is a weed but can't find it searching for weeds

Thank you everyone.
You have all been really helpful with identifying plants for me but I currently have a few that I have been searching to try and ID and just can't...can anyone help?
This has recently popped up in the front garden and is really pretty, a bit orchid like in it's markings

This one is strange to me. The flower spikes are very lilly like but I can't decide if it could be a lilly?

I have no idea with this either but there is lots in the front garden-weed??

This is a very out of control shrub but the bees love it so I don't want to cut it back now, but would like to ID it so I can see when/how it can be cut back.


This is one of the most striking flowers in our garden-the picture doesn't do the colour justice. It looks like it's been coloured with a bright pink highlighter pen!

Finally, I think this is a weed but can't find it searching for weeds

Thank you everyone.
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Ok:
1. Alstromeria - just leave it; it wil spread by roots.
2. Evening primrose possibly the large flowered ev. prim - Oenothera glazioviana - leave to set seed.
3. Houtteynia cordata 'Chameleon' - like bindweed; get rid if it!
4. Spiraea japonica - cut it back after its flowered; you can be a bit brutal with this plant.
5. Lychnis coronaria - dead head
6. Some kind of willowherb - Epilobium spp - pull it out.0 -
1. alstroemeria?
2. very difficult to tell against the backdrop of the variegated plant and without a clear picture of a flower. But could it be another variety of alstroemeria?
3. type of ivy?
4. buddleia?
5. not sure
6. not sure0 -
Thanks guys-I knew I would have more horrid weeds lurking! I am still fighting with bindweed and ground elder in the back garden too
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Isn`t number 3 a hosta?"Ignore the eejits...it saves your blood pressure and drives `em nuts!"
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No, not a hosta, gardenroute is correct.Please do not quote spam as this enables it to 'live on' once the spam post is removed.

If you quote me, don't forget the capital 'M'
Declutterers of the world - unite! :rotfl::rotfl:0 -
Definitely Houtteynia , hate the stuff, stinks to high heaven. Just my opinion, its great in other peoples garden.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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