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Plant ID
Sarah Price
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Hi All, I moved into a property with an overgrown cottage garden. I have been having problems identifying a few plants. Please can you help, plus any suggestions on how to look after them. Many thanks from a keen but very amateur gardener.
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1. Fritillaria Meleagris
Other 2 look familiar but names arent coming to me.
Someone else will come along shortly to help
The first is a fritillary, one of my faves, I just leave them be, allow them to self seed and soon you'll have a colony. Do watch out for lily beetles though, mine have been decimated this year as I was away for a week - subsequently squished more than 20!
Can't help on 2 as eyes not good enough.
3 might be aramis but really not sure.
no1 is a snakeshead fritillary, don't know No2 but I like it and I don't know No3, sorry, not a lot of help.
Hi Sarah,
1 is a snakes head fritillary. its a bulb, I don't know about care, I don't give mine any
The others I don't know, sorry.
Vic
No. 3 Yellow = celandine and pink could be ladies smock.
Agree with the others on No. 1
Can't make out No. 2
Yes! Think Forester2 is right
Ladies smock has different stem leaves to basal leaves
No. 1. Snakeshed fritillary - a flower of old damp meadows, rare in the wild.
No. 2 is Lathyrus vernus - spring vetchling - a lovely thing.
No. 3 is Cardamine pratensis also known as Ladies Smock and Cuckoo Flower - another lovely flower of old damp meadows, getting quite rare in the wild.
You've got some quite special things in your garden - lucky you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
2 is Lathyrus vernus, spring pea. sorry like Victoria, mine don't get any care. They just comes up every year
I think 3 is Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower. I'm interested in that little cyclamen to the right of it. I haven't got any cyclamen flowering right now, Do you, or does anyone else, know which one it is?
In the sticks near Peterborough
What do you reckon that cyclamen is Dove?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I forgot about the care. 1 and 3 like it damp, they're water meadow natives
In the sticks near Peterborough