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Can anyone help identify this plant please. I had one a couple of years ago that grew to over 6feet high and 4 foot across. It has furry silver green leaves. there are two photos, one is a large plant and one a seedling.
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Mystery plant
In message , jena
writes Can anyone help identify this plant please. I had one a couple of years ago that grew to over 6feet high and 4 foot across. It has furry silver green leaves. there are two photos, one is a large plant and one a seedling. Does it has spikes of yellow flowers? If so, then one of the Verbascums. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: plant 3.JPG | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15259| |Filename: plant 1.JPG | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15260| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Mystery plant
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:16:57 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , jena writes Can anyone help identify this plant please. I had one a couple of years ago that grew to over 6feet high and 4 foot across. It has furry silver green leaves. there are two photos, one is a large plant and one a seedling. Does it has spikes of yellow flowers? If so, then one of the Verbascums. I always call it "Lamb's Ear", in fact just this morning I pulled one out that was growing at the base of one of my trees and was annoying me, unfortunately I didn't get the root so I know it will grow back... they can get kind of huge and they do send of a tall spike of yellow flowers... they look okay in the right place, like in a hedgerow as they are somewhat invasive. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: plant 3.JPG | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15259| |Filename: plant 1.JPG | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15260| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
Mystery plant
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:02:19 +0000, jena wrote:
Can anyone help identify this plant please. I had one a couple of years ago that grew to over 6feet high and 4 foot across. It has furry silver green leaves. there are two photos, one is a large plant and one a seedling. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: plant 3.JPG | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15259| |Filename: plant 1.JPG | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15260| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Looks like it might be a Verbascum.... here's the weedy V. thapsus that I spent what felt like a good fraction of my childhood pulling: http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/vesth.htm |
Mystery plant
In message , Brooklyn1
writes On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:16:57 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , jena writes Can anyone help identify this plant please. I had one a couple of years ago that grew to over 6feet high and 4 foot across. It has furry silver green leaves. there are two photos, one is a large plant and one a seedling. Does it has spikes of yellow flowers? If so, then one of the Verbascums. I always call it "Lamb's Ear", in fact just this morning I pulled one out that was growing at the base of one of my trees and was annoying me, unfortunately I didn't get the root so I know it will grow back... they can get kind of huge and they do send of a tall spike of yellow flowers... they look okay in the right place, like in a hedgerow as they are somewhat invasive. That's an example of the problem with using vernacular names. Here Lamb's Ear is Stachys byzantina. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Mystery plant
On 05/09/2012 11:35, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , Brooklyn1 writes On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:16:57 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , jena writes Can anyone help identify this plant please. I had one a couple of years ago that grew to over 6feet high and 4 foot across. It has furry silver green leaves. there are two photos, one is a large plant and one a seedling. Does it has spikes of yellow flowers? If so, then one of the Verbascums. I always call it "Lamb's Ear", in fact just this morning I pulled one out that was growing at the base of one of my trees and was annoying me, unfortunately I didn't get the root so I know it will grow back... they can get kind of huge and they do send of a tall spike of yellow flowers... they look okay in the right place, like in a hedgerow as they are somewhat invasive. That's an example of the problem with using vernacular names. Here Lamb's Ear is Stachys byzantina. Or Stachys lanata... -- Jeff |
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