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cambsgirl · 25-10-2005, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sue

"Kay" wrote
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Nos 5, 6, 7 'pink mess', 'pink flowers' 'pink mess 2' have me stumped.
The flowers look superficially like Viscaria but the leaves are wrong -
the leaves look like geranium or (or astrantia). But the presence of one
of these leaves in 'pink mess 2' makes it look as if the leaves in no 6
belong to 'pink mess'.

No 8 'pink and white' is again pink flowered, and looks like Verbena.
But this does not tie up with the OPs comment "the 8th did have a few
pink flowers on till i lopped them all off." So did that comment refer
not to no 8 but to no 6? And does no 6 not belong to no 5 and no 7?

There's nothing here that looks remotely like Primula vulgaris. What I'm
seeing as no 8 doesn't look at all like a geranium (though no 6 does).
And the one that looks like a Verbena is no 8 not no 7.

Yes I think cambsgirl's last few pics ended up out of the order she was
expecting, which is why I referred to 'pink and white' (ie the last one on
the page) as Verbena rather than give it a number.

Looking at the 'pink mess' ones again, the flowers remind me of some kind
of Oxalis, altho the stems are a bit straggly. Could that be a possibility?
There is a blurry leaf to the top left in one pic that could be a tattered
'four leaved clover' type to go with it.

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Sue

ok everyone thanks for your responses, my original posts were edited bacuse it wouldnt let me put all 8 pics in one go and 3 posts have been combined and i believe they have been taken out of order

so therefore as you look at the pics

6 should be 8
8 should be 7
7 should be 6

but it seems all are identified now, well done everyone for unscrambling an even more complex question than the first one

many thanks

ps anyone got any care advice for these plants? we have been here 4 weeks and i feel i should be 'doing something' to them............