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Plant ID help please

Fay
Fay Posts: 1,034 Forumite
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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
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This one is strange to me. The flower spikes are very lilly like but I can't decide if it could be a lilly?
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I have no idea with this either but there is lots in the front garden-weed??
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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.
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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!
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Finally, I think this is a weed but can't find it searching for weeds

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Thank you everyone.

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  • gardenroute
    gardenroute Posts: 232 Forumite
    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.
  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 12,467 Forumite
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    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 sure
  • Fay
    Fay Posts: 1,034 Forumite
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    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 :(
  • Red_Doe
    Red_Doe Posts: 889 Forumite
    Isn`t number 3 a hosta?
    "Ignore the eejits...it saves your blood pressure and drives `em nuts!" :D
  • Money_maker
    Money_maker Posts: 5,471 Forumite
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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. ;)

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  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    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.
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