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Can anyone identify this plant?

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lnks · 31/03/2025 15:33

I inherited it in my new house, I’d like to buy a few more but I’m clueless and don’t know what it is.

Can anyone identify this plant?
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Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 15:34

Looks like creeping thyme

almondfinger · 31/03/2025 15:35

If it’s flowering now most likely heather

butteriesplease · 31/03/2025 15:56

looks like heather? nice flowers, but goes really twiggy and scratchy.

Alltheburpees · 31/03/2025 15:58

That’s bell heather.

S0CKPUPPET · 31/03/2025 15:59

Yes it’s Heather . There are lots of different types , with flowers in the purple - pink spectrum .

marsaline · 31/03/2025 16:00

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 15:34

Looks like creeping thyme

It really doesn’t

its heather

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 17:58

@marsaline it’s subjective - at a glance, I thought it looked like red creeping. Is there any need to correct me? I can clap if you like. Well done you gardener extraordinaire….

hellotomrw · 31/03/2025 18:03

100% heather

Ukholidaysaregreat · 31/03/2025 18:04

Bell heather. Likes acid soils. Bees enjoy it.

senua · 31/03/2025 18:04

I’d like to buy a few more but I’m clueless and don’t know what it is.
You could always propagate it; now is a good time to do layering. Doing this means that you will get identical babies.
Info here.

How to grow hardy heathers  / RHS Gardening

How to grow hardy heathers / RHS Gardening

Learn how to grow hardy heathers in your garden with the RHS expert guide on choosing, planting, feeding, pruning and propagating plants.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/heathers/growing-guide

Harrysmummy246 · 31/03/2025 18:05

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 15:34

Looks like creeping thyme

Nope. Heather

marsaline · 31/03/2025 18:07

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 17:58

@marsaline it’s subjective - at a glance, I thought it looked like red creeping. Is there any need to correct me? I can clap if you like. Well done you gardener extraordinaire….

It’s just frustrating when people who don’t know the answer use plant ID apps to give an answer that is more often than not incorrect.

It doesn’t look at all like creeping thyme.

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 18:09

@marsaline I didn’t use an app. My mum has some in her garden and it was just a guess. Sorry about that

lnks · 31/03/2025 19:12

Perfect Thank you so much. I think I’ll definitely have a go at propagating it. I hadn’t thought of that.

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blacksax · 31/03/2025 23:17

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 17:58

@marsaline it’s subjective - at a glance, I thought it looked like red creeping. Is there any need to correct me? I can clap if you like. Well done you gardener extraordinaire….

This is the gardening board and funnily enough, there are some actual gardening experts on it. And yes, there is a need to correct people when they get plant id wrong.

Applefumble · 31/03/2025 23:34

Zippymonkey · 31/03/2025 17:58

@marsaline it’s subjective - at a glance, I thought it looked like red creeping. Is there any need to correct me? I can clap if you like. Well done you gardener extraordinaire….

Identifying plants isn't subjective!

Zippymonkey · 01/04/2025 07:48

I think identifying plants from a photo is subjective and you don’t get to decide whether that is a fact on an opinion forum. Goodness me, it’s just a plant. Time to get on with real life.

S0CKPUPPET · 01/04/2025 09:11

Creeping thyme is a diferent form ( shape ) . It’s more thin and flat and spreading, like a mat.

Heather is more of a mound shape, even though lots of them together might look like a mat.

Heathers have flowers on the end of each tiny stalk, which sticks up. Up close they look like little bells ( hence the common name bell Heather ). Thyme flowers are flat with four petals and stamens.

You can see in these photos that the flowers of thyme and heathers are completely different.

Also it’s more likely to be a heather flowering in March in the Uk.

So no, it’s not subjective at all.

Can anyone identify this plant?
Can anyone identify this plant?
marsaline · 01/04/2025 10:18

Zippymonkey · 01/04/2025 07:48

I think identifying plants from a photo is subjective and you don’t get to decide whether that is a fact on an opinion forum. Goodness me, it’s just a plant. Time to get on with real life.

Sorry but the identification of anything is not subjective. It is factually one thing or another.

Dear me this is like the feminism board all of a sudden

Zippymonkey · 01/04/2025 18:29

My point is that identifying things from photographs is subjective. Not that identity is subjective. This particular picture is clear and easy to identify (not to me as previously established!) but equally it could be a less clear photograph or a more unusual plant and then you might disagree about what plant it is.

There are examples on this very expert board where multiple people cannot decide which plant is in the picture.

TheBuffetInspector · 01/04/2025 18:31

It's lovely, I want some.

nodramaplz · 01/04/2025 18:36

Put a picture of the leaf into Google, it will tell you

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