Plant identification please

[MrsCremuel]

Hello all,

Have recently been ‘getting into’ gardens and gardening and have long seen the attached about and loved them. What are they are are they easy to grow?

They’re euphorbia. Really easy to grow. The sap is poisonous though, so be careful. I have lots - they go really well in shade and I find them a really useful plant.

@WellTidy thank you, they are lovely though with two small children maybe I’ll wait until they stop putting everything in their mouths first!

Also known as Spurge (by my mum and her brigade of Lady Gardeners In Hats).

I am terrible with plant names. If you open the plant photo in Google photos, it does an internet search of similar images and finds the plant name for you!!!

You’d only come into contact with the sap if a branch was broken or cut off. The sap doesn’t exist on the surface of the plant. I’ve had euphorbia in the garden whilst bringing up young DC and it’s always been fine, if I was cutting it back I’d just do that in the evening or something. But I understand the caution which is why I mentioned it.

They’re lovely plants, I think.

Although not one of my favourites, they certainly brighten up dark, dry, dusty corners.

They also spread like wildfire - they fling their seeds some distance.

The sap is toxic and can burn your skin. So growing it in a garden where small children might fall over and land on it may not be a good idea.

They're Euphoria Characias sub species Wulfenii.
Lovely plant but grows rampantly.

@Tretchikoff

They're Euphoria Characias sub species Wulfenii. Lovely plant but grows rampantly.

I'm not sure there's enough to go on to be that certain. You can rule out all the green-leaved spurges, and things like E myrsinites but can we even be certain of the scale of that? Likely to be E. characias if it's getting on for 1m high but that's based on the frequency with which it's grown not on any other characteristics.