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Post by ianr on Sept 30, 2018 6:43:50 GMT
Thanks aeshna5 there was a nice run of it along the edge of the car park at one of the reserves I visit ian
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Post by rowanberry on Oct 6, 2018 20:30:10 GMT
I was quite surprised to discover this little petunia struggling to come up in a patch where I'd tried to get some poppies to grow back in the spring.
I know it's not really a wildflower, but since it's self-seeded I'm considering it feral.
Poor thing, trying to bloom in October! It looked so miserable by this afternoon- all bedraggled from the constant cold rain, that I dug it up and brought it indoors.
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Post by aeshna5 on Oct 7, 2018 4:45:38 GMT
It is an attractive little Petunia. I did see one somewhere last week that was flowering in a pavement which must have escaped from a garden.
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Post by duncan74 on Oct 8, 2018 18:58:28 GMT
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 15, 2018 8:03:19 GMT
I was quite surprised to discover this little petunia struggling to come up in a patch where I'd tried to get some poppies to grow back in the spring.
I know it's not really a wildflower, but since it's self-seeded I'm considering it feral.
Poor thing, trying to bloom in October! It looked so miserable by this afternoon- all bedraggled from the constant cold rain, that I dug it up and brought it indoors.
Immediately started singing "I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch".
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 15, 2018 8:35:16 GMT
I do get surprised when a plant determinedly flowers against all the odds. This Pansy, growing in stone paving. kept its head up through two days of gales and torrential rain, when all the plants around were flattened and a tree came down. Corry House Pansy by Helen Skelton, on Flickr
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Post by duncan74 on Oct 16, 2018 18:12:53 GMT
They don't need much to survive Helen, there is probably a lot of dampness under the slabs, lovely photo Duncan
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Post by aeshna5 on Dec 9, 2018 13:23:03 GMT
Winter Heliotrope beginning to flower at Petersham yesterday.
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Post by Tringa on Dec 13, 2018 20:03:48 GMT
My flower of the day is gorse. This one and quite a few others were flowering well in the early morning frost. It is easy to understand the saying "When gorse out of bloom then kissing is out of fashion" It is, IMO, a great plant that brightens almost any day of the year. Dave Sorry for the rubbish photo. It is from my phone held in one hand while 10kg of terrier in the other hand was trying to be somewhere else.
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Post by ianr on Dec 14, 2018 11:00:44 GMT
The gorse here is flowering and a welcome sight it is, more so when the sun catches it ian
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Post by iancol on Dec 28, 2018 8:42:12 GMT
Hi all, I panicked when I tried to log in to WAB and got the error message. Didn't have to try too hard to find this new site, though, and am glad to see some names I recognise. I'm a bit late starting my what-is-this-plant review this winter but came across a very nice, winter-flowering perennial yesterday that'll look good along a new fence. My local garden centre couldn't ID it, other than suggesting it's a clematis and possibly Wisley Cream, but the leaves look very different. Any ideas, please? www.flickr.com/gp/62258600@N03/D8Db65www.flickr.com/gp/62258600@N03/235790Happy New Year, Ian
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Post by ianr on Dec 28, 2018 9:44:24 GMT
No clue on the plant but hello hope you had a good Christmas and a happy new year to you ian
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Post by iancol on Dec 28, 2018 10:02:09 GMT
Thanks. I realise this isn't a wild plant but am hoping for a result. Looking again at the leaves, it's a bit potentilla-ish?
Ian
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Post by Harold Smith on Dec 28, 2018 10:23:49 GMT
Hi Ian,
Welcome to WABI. Sadly WAB appears to be no more.
I would say it is definitely a Clematis. Though the flower looks like Wisley Cream the leaf structure does not match.
Unfortunately there are many hundreds of varieties of Clematis including white flowering ones. It could be Clematis montana as the flower and leaf structure are similar. Other candidates could be C. vitalba or C. virginiana.
I hope this is of some help.
Harold.
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Post by aeshna5 on Dec 28, 2018 14:15:53 GMT
It's Clematis cirrhosa or a hybrid with that as a parent.
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