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Name that plant

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1questionshootout · 29/10/2020 07:40

Can anyone identify this plant? The goldy yellow one with heart shaped leaves. DH thinks the autumn colour is lovely.

Thank you!

Name that plant
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MereDintofPandiculation · 29/10/2020 09:58

Would be nice to have more of a close up. Looks like a group of gone-over cyclamen, but to be that it'd have to be an indoor cyclamen planted outside - the hardy ones are in full growth at the moment. So my best guess would be Brunnera.

NanTheWiser · 29/10/2020 11:15

I wondered Brunnera too...

1questionshootout · 29/10/2020 17:10

Apologies for the photo, it’s what DH sent me. I shall have a look at Brunnera.

Many thanks!

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DahliaGardener · 29/10/2020 17:51

It's an Epimedium. Perhaps Epimedium brevicomu or E. grandiflorum "Princesss Susan".

MereDintofPandiculation · 29/10/2020 20:31

Don't Epimediums have several leaves to a stem? This one has only a single leaf on each stem.

Flaunch · 29/10/2020 20:33

Is it not a hosta dying back for winter?

WiseUpJanetWeiss · 29/10/2020 20:45

@Flaunch

Is it not a hosta dying back for winter?
Looks like a hosta to me too. Mine looks like that at the moment.
Roystonv · 29/10/2020 20:48

Hosta

ErrolTheDragon · 29/10/2020 21:05

The dead flower spikes look hosts-ish too, to me.

MereDintofPandiculation · 30/10/2020 10:56

Could be Hosta. Small leaves though for a h=7osta?

... Yes, Hosta. I've just enlarged the pic. In the centre there is a flower spike still in flower, pale mauve open mouthed bells, OK for Hosta, not OK for Brunnera.

What would be a clincher for Hosta is if the leaf veins all start at the stem and run almost parallel up te leaf, rather than forming a branching network. Enlarging the picture of course just enlarges the the lack of focus, but I think the veins are parallel. Something the OP could check.

JemimaTiggywinkle · 30/10/2020 11:00

It looks like hostas to me too

ErrolTheDragon · 30/10/2020 14:01

I passed a hosta with leaves much that size, colour and shape on my walk just now.

1questionshootout · 30/10/2020 16:42

Do all host as look like that over winter? Or do they need tidied up?

( I’ve totally failed at hostas before)

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NanTheWiser · 30/10/2020 16:59

Hostas die back completely over winter, @1questionshootout, So you could remove all the dying leaves for tidiness, if you wish.

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