What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Duncan2]

Suspect mallows looking good this morning

Turns out my mallows (which have become as tall as sunflowers and which my gf actually boiled up and consumed in large quantities believing them to be kebai) are in fact without a shadow of a doubt Nicandra physalodes a.k.a the apple of Peru aka the Shoo-fly-Plant.Starting to see how plants can be really surprising.

 

[gentlegreen]

Shame on me for not recognising a solanaceous plant

The physalis-like seed pods might have given it away - sadly the fruit are apparently rather toxic.

 

[Duncan2]

Shame on me for not recognising a solanaceous plant

The physalis-like seed pods might have given it away - sadly the fruit are apparently rather toxic.

Right-will make sure the gf doesn't start in on the fruit.She was emboldened by the extent to which the large leaves had been a rabbit-magnet at the bottom of our garden.

 

[Rushy]

Hello folks. What is this? The one in St Matthews Peace Gardens flowered spectacularly well and long.

 

[gentlegreen]

lavatera

(tree mallow)

Related to hollyhocks, hibiscus, cotton and cacao

 

[StoneRoad]

Concur - it is a Tree Mallow Rushy

 

[Rushy]

Thanks!

 

[Artaxerxes]

Edit wrong thread again

 

[gentlegreen]

Darn, I was about to make a sarky post

 

[teuchter]

What's this?

 

[StoneRoad]

leaf colour and pattern implies coleus but the shape doesn't.

 

[gentlegreen]

or a maranta ...

 

[teuchter]

Persicaria has been suggested to me but I can't find a variant with that leaf shape.

 

[gentlegreen]

Persicaria runcinata ?

 

[teuchter]

Persicaria runcinata ?

That's it! Cheers.

 

[StoneRoad]

"purple fantasy" - looks nice, but is a knotweed ...

 

[gentlegreen]

"purple fantasy" - looks nice, but is a knotweed ...

Thankfully they aren't all going to be thugs

 

[Calamity1971]

This is growing down from me in the college grounds. Pic makes the flowers look pink, but they're closer to red. Also the flowers are crocus shaped?

 

[Leafster]

This is growing down from me in the college grounds. Pic makes the flowers look pink, but they're closer to red. Also the flowers are crocus shaped?
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I’m on my phone but it looks liike Hesperantha coccinea. It’s something I spotted recently and thought about getting for my garden.

 

[Epona]

I wish I had a garden!

That looks like a Hesperantha coccinea

 

[Epona]

Oh snap

 

[Calamity1971]

I’m on my phone but it looks liike Hesperantha coccinea. It’s something I spotted recently and thought about getting for my garden.

I wish I had a garden!

That looks like a Hesperantha coccinea

Cheers guys, it's really vibrant. Never come across it before.

 

[Epona]

Cheers guys, it's really vibrant. Never come across it before.

Beautiful, isn't it? They come in a range of pinks and reds.

 

[Calamity1971]

Beautiful, isn't it? They come in a range of pinks and reds.

I've just looked at the rhs website and want them all.

 

[campanula]

They are terrific water plants - mine grow with their roots in the pond. Although I also have one in my gravel garden. Very long lived and obviously resilient to survive my benign neglect.
I haven't got my head around the name change - they are still schizostylis to me.

 

[seeformiles]

Anybody have any idea what this is? I found it growing on a dead birch tree. Looks like it might be some kind of antler or coral fungus but seems to be the wrong colour.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Anybody have any idea what this is? I found it growing on a dead birch tree. Looks like it might be some kind of antler or coral fungus but seems to be the wrong colour.

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Yellow Fingers, calocera cornea would be my guess.

 

[seeformiles]

Yellow Fingers, calocera cornea would be my guess.

Many thanks!

 

[smmudge]

What could this be trying to grow at this time of year??

 

[Leafster]

Hmmm, they look a little like they might be winter flowering irises but I'd say they are sprouting too early.

Iris reticulata maybe?