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Plant IDs please! New garden coming to life

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WhiteSandyBeach · 08/05/2023 20:04

We moved into our new place in the winter, and it seems that the previous owner was a keen gardener. Lots of stuff that looked pretty dead has sprung up! We’d love to know what some of is.
We have:

  • bush of tiny flowers that smells amazing
  • vigorous yellow flowers
  • tall tree like thing with beautiful red/pink flowers.
help!
Plant IDs please! New garden coming to life
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WhiteSandyBeach · 08/05/2023 20:04

yellow one:

Plant IDs please! New garden coming to life
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WhiteSandyBeach · 08/05/2023 20:05

Fragrant one:

Plant IDs please! New garden coming to life
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Custardbanana · 08/05/2023 20:06

#3 the fragrant one is lilac

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 08/05/2023 20:07

Weigela
Erysimum
Lilac (I think Hungarian lilac but not sure about the variety)

sashagabadon · 08/05/2023 20:08

2.wallflower
3.lilac

HazelTheGreenWitch · 08/05/2023 20:08

These are all lovely, what nice plants to inherit!
I think you have a weigela (pink one), and perennial wallflowers (yellow). I'm still learning though so I may be wrong!

Stickytreacle · 08/05/2023 20:10

Tall pink looks like wiegelia, the yellow looks like erysimum/wallflower and the third lilac.

Raiponceinatangle · 08/05/2023 20:10

Do you have a iPhone? I learned this trick from another thread…
take the photo, view the photo in your library, swipe up and then click on ‘look up plant’. Amazing!!

Raiponceinatangle · 08/05/2023 20:15

Agree with weigela and lilac as I have both. The ‘trick’ for the third gives me yellow bells, but that’s American apparently 🤔

WhiteSandyBeach · 08/05/2023 20:17

@Raiponceinatangle WOW I had never heard of this! I do - it works - and it’s giving me the same feedback as others on this thread

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WhiteSandyBeach · 08/05/2023 20:20

HazelTheGreenWitch · 08/05/2023 20:08

These are all lovely, what nice plants to inherit!
I think you have a weigela (pink one), and perennial wallflowers (yellow). I'm still learning though so I may be wrong!

It’s been wonderful watching things pop up. It all seems quite well planned so far, with loads of colour all the time, even though it’s a small garden. We had waves of daffs then grape hyancinth, and hyacinths, then bluebells, now this lovely crop which everyone has kindly helped ID.

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Napoleonsjosephine · 08/05/2023 20:23

Raiponceinatangle · 08/05/2023 20:10

Do you have a iPhone? I learned this trick from another thread…
take the photo, view the photo in your library, swipe up and then click on ‘look up plant’. Amazing!!

Wow, thanks, that is really helpful!

tailinthejam · 08/05/2023 20:26

Raiponceinatangle · 08/05/2023 20:10

Do you have a iPhone? I learned this trick from another thread…
take the photo, view the photo in your library, swipe up and then click on ‘look up plant’. Amazing!!

Amazing - but often wrong, unfortunately, because a lot of these databases hold info on plants grown mostly in the USA and we don't get here, or won't survive in our climate.

Pairs of eyes belonging to MNers on the Gardening threads can be a lot more reliable (most of the time!).

79andnotout · 09/05/2023 09:18

@WhiteSandyBeach if you can be bothered, make a spreadsheet with photos/names/location and time of growth/flowering as things appear in your garden. Then when they disappear you wont accidentally dig up ones you liked, and you can also plan for adding more to plug the gaps in seasonal interest. Bulbs are usually a good one to stuff in between the gaps.

MereDintofPandiculation · 09/05/2023 09:26

Raiponceinatangle · 08/05/2023 20:15

Agree with weigela and lilac as I have both. The ‘trick’ for the third gives me yellow bells, but that’s American apparently 🤔

And also totally wrong. If you google “yellow bells” you get a plant with fused petals showing 5 lobes. OP’s plant clearly has 4 separate petals. The difference between 5 petals and 4 petals is pretty fundamental.

Plant apps are useful to give suggestions to research, but never rely on them.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 09/05/2023 09:29

79andnotout · 09/05/2023 09:18

@WhiteSandyBeach if you can be bothered, make a spreadsheet with photos/names/location and time of growth/flowering as things appear in your garden. Then when they disappear you wont accidentally dig up ones you liked, and you can also plan for adding more to plug the gaps in seasonal interest. Bulbs are usually a good one to stuff in between the gaps.

Or just take regular photos, if you are lazy like me

79andnotout · 09/05/2023 09:33

If you're anything like me, your phone is a bloated disorganised mess of photos you can never get on top of! Not that I have a spreadsheet either, but it's what I wished I did when I got my garden ten years ago, instead of killing loads of stuff!

MereDintofPandiculation · 09/05/2023 11:06

I download phone photos on to computer because they're easier to organise there.

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