Can anyone help me identify these plants? They are both growing in the Mencap Garden when I visited on Friday and I can’t place them.
The one in the featured photo is just leaves at the moment and stands about six inches high.
The other, in the three pictures below, looks familiar, but I can’t place it. It is up to eight feet high when supported by the fence, but most of it seems to be lying flat across the bed and path.
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Any suggestions are welcome. There’s a lot I don’t know, but in this case I feel I have the readers to dispel my ignorance.
Can’t help you with this one, Quercus. I’ll vote with Clare. 🙂
She’s much better than I am with plants. 🙂
I love that I can ask what a plant is on WordPress and get an answer–and often the latin name.
Yes, it’s amazing how WP has improved my life. 🙂
Not me unfortunately. Sorry.
That makes two of us. 🙂
Could the first plant be heliotrope?
Could be – I’ll wait for the flowers and see what happens. Thanks.
I’m really not sure about this one. The maroon rib is very striking. I look forward to seeing the flowers.
Time will tell – they certainly look promising. 🙂
The second one is a scabious and is probably lying flat because of the high winds we have had recently. It will need staking and dead-heading and will be fine (loved by bees!). I’m having a think about the first one. Nothing springs to mind at present!
Thank you. Yes, it’s definitely been windy. I will pass the staking advice on to Julia.