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Hi everyone
In the last couple of years I've really got into gardening - before this I only had a lawn! I bought a box of wild flowers, planted them and lots have come up but apart from white alyssum, I don't know the names of any! I've also posted another one that just came up in my garden and I don't know what it is. Can anyone help please?
Right, well thats a lovely mix you have there, I bet the bees are happy!
My flower ID can be a bit shaky but from what I can see you have candytuft (white clumps just below centre), a lovely orange wallflower, some oxalis articulata or pink sorrel (bottom right), some night-scented stock (pink purple flowers scattered around the patch) however the big showy pink one has got me baffled at the moment.
Is your second picture of a small shrub as the flower spike does look a bit like a hebe, picture 4 looks like one of the vetch family.
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Thats great! I don't know where the orange wallflower came from as I planted a box called the white garden and got all sorts of stuff coming up!
I've got a couple more I'm not sure of. BTW, thank you for your help :)
Is that some sort of allium? Just going by the way the flowers are clusters at the end of the stem, there is a technical term for that which escapes me for the moment...can anyone else help on that?
hello gannet, of your original set of pics, I'd say pic 2 is a Hebe and showy pink one possible Godetia.
i also agree with Ian about 2nd set being an allium, but i have also forgotten the technical term for the cluster.
*goes to find book.
Ian H said: Is that some sort of allium? Just going by the way the flowers are clusters at the end of the stem, there is a technical term for that which escapes me for the moment...can anyone else help on that?
Umbel..?
Just been flicking through a couple of books.
The white flower next to the orange wallflower looks like an arabis to me? number two Hebe, number three I thought a mallow at first but not sure and don't know much about Godetias, number 4 is purple vetch, Allium could be right for the second lot but it's an unusual one if it is.....possibly this one...
Sorry not a great help I'm afraid...
Thank you very much everyone for your help! I've gone and bought some more flowers but kept the tags until I learn what everything is. I've only got into gardening birds over the last couple of years - its like being on a journey of discovery! Thanks again!
Keep up the good work, it would be great to see how you get on and how things develop.
As for the name for the group of flowers at the top of allium's, umbel does seem to be the term used by many to describe it, a globular umbel seems quite appropriate.