What is this plant please?

[sleepy78]

Hi
I'm moving house soon and would like to plant some of the same plants in my new garden. My present one has lots of wildish plants which grew and spread by themselves so I don't know what they are...
The one with a yellow/red flower is tall and grows in single bunches. The other one has lots of long thin leaves but ever seems to flower...

Wait, how do I add a photo...

If on the app the attachment button is under the box you write in

Ok here's one at least... My phone hates me.

The flowerless one

That’s a wallflower. You can buy plants but they are easy to grow from seed. Traditional ones are biennial ( though they live longer in m6 mildish garden but do get straggly). there are also short lived perennial varieties - most common of these is Bowles mauve. Those are easy to propagate from cuttings.
Happy gardening!

Thanks Honeywort. That's good to know. I really love them so I'll try to get seeds. They are very tall and straggly - is there some way to prevent this?

Can you dig some out of your current garden and take them with you?

I don't know SarfE4sticated... would that work? I could take one or 2... They seem to love our garden so I hope they'll live the new one. I'm going to try taking some african violets with me (I think that's what they are)...

If you’re moving to a similar area to where you live now then you should be ok. Native plants are pretty hardy. Dig up with a decent amount of roots and soil put in a pot and water. When you get to new place plant. If you’re careful the plant might not even realise it’s been moved.

Brilliant SarfE4sticated I'm actually moving diwn the same street so that's perfect... will try that then...

I am actually going to have a much bigger garden and am very excited so I'm sure I'll be asking lots if questions here along the way.... I'm a real novice!

I think the flowering one is one of the many perennial wallflowers (erysimum). I have one which flowers pretty much all year, but which is a right scruffy mess and lies down on everything around it.

I would just dig a chunk out and take it with you, but they are very easy to grow on from cuttings.

I don't think African violets grow outdoors in the UK, have you a pic of that?

Its quite possible I got that wrong... These things pop up everywhere!

Oh those are primroses! Love them. Again, perfectly easy to dig up, shove in a pot, and decant into your new garden.

They spread freely, so you just need a few to start you off.

Oh MrsBertBibby thanks! I'll do that then. I tried to grow them when I was young I remember and they never took off.

Make sure you dig deep to get most of the root, and water : digging plants up and moving them around gives them shock, and a good drink helps the recover. Primroses are woodland plants, so they prefer not to spend all day in direct sun. Put them where they will be partially shaded by a fence or hedge, or under a tree, and they'll be happy.

I do like the mauve colour! The pale yellow is the normal native colour.

Is the flowerless one in pic 2 muscari?

That's possible TheRhyrhmlessMan I seem to remember having some flowers like that before. I'll have to look them up - I feel line they didn't flower last year but maybe I didn't notice....