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Plant ID please.
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Scabious? Species foxglove, like lutea?To be honest ,the size of the picture really isn't helping!0
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Sorrel? a pic of the flower might help too
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Flowers not out yet. I'll post a better picture of the leaves.
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
The suspense is killing me.....!1
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Will these help?
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
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Possibly an aster, but I'm going to look again when I've woken up.....EDIT: Having looked at some of mine, I'm sticking with aster. Don't think they're quite right for Penstemon and I can rule out the Scabious and Digitalis suggestions made earlier.0
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Davesnave said:Possibly an aster, but I'm going to look again when I've woken up.....EDIT: Having looked at some of mine, I'm sticking with aster. Don't think they're quite right for Penstemon and I can rule out the Scabious and Digitalis suggestions made earlier.
Now that you've said it, I can recall buying it for colour in my yard then leaving it in the pot because I couldn't decide what else to do with it after the flowers had gone.
Much obliged.
Note to self - if you've got a memory like a sieve, stick labels in the blasted things.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
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Ah, well, before you write that label, you might like to read the following, copied from the very excellent Claire Austin:
Renaming Asters
Sadly, in 2015 Asters suffered at the hands of botanists. Almost all types of asters from the United States were lumped under one or two new names, while many others from around the world stayed as aster. I don’t object to this, but what I do think is ridiculous is the awful, unpronounceable name they have re-Christened these wonderful Michaelmas Daisies and New England Asters.
Here are some examples of commonly available Asters and their new names:
Aster acris is now Galatella sedifolia
Aster cordifolius is now Symphyotrichum cordifolius
Aster ericoides (as in ‘Pink Cloud’) is now Symphyotrichum ericoides
Aster herveyi is now Eurybia x herveyi (not so long ago this was Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’ and a name that still crops up on nursery lists.
Aster laterifolius (as in ‘Horizontalis’) is now Symphyotrichum laterifolius
Aster novae-angliae (New England Aster) is now Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Aster novi-belgii (Michaelmas daisy) is now Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
......or you could just enjoy the flowers !
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