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Kake ([personal profile] kake) wrote in [community profile] gardening2011-07-17 03:26 pm
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Name that plant

I bought a house, and it came with a (well-maintained) garden attached. I don't know what any of the plants are, so I took some photos and am hoping people can help me identify them. (They're all ornamental. I have never grown anything non-edible before, except a geranium which has yet to produce more than one flower.)

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[IMAGE: Plant in glazed green ceramic pot with long non-serrated leaves and flowers mostly withered. There's one flower left, white and fuchsia, hiding just under the rim of the pot.]
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[IMAGE: Plant in unglazed stone pot with fuzzy long, rounded leaves and a trumpet-shaped yellow flower. Decorative terracotta stylised sun plaque in background.]
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[IMAGE: Plant in glazed yellow ceramic pot with dark green compact rounded serrated leaves and light pink large-petalled flowers.]
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[IMAGE: Plant in terracotta pot with fuzzy light green leaves. A few white flowers remain but it's mostly fruiting.]
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[IMAGE: Plant in glazed beige ceramic pot with thick light green leaves and large white flowers.]
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[IMAGE: Plant in blue ceramic pot with lilypad-shaped leaves, coloured concentrically green and reddish-brown; the flowers are bright pink.]

Does anyone recognise any of these? I live in London, UK, if that helps.

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[personal profile] dantesspirit 2011-07-17 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
1st- Dianthus

2nd- Petunia

3rd- Impatien

4th- Looks to have been another Petunia, those are seed pods.

5th- Petunia

6th- Geranium


Dead head (remove the dead flowers) the flowers on the Petunias and Geranium and they'll bloom more. Petunias will grow in both sun and part shade, and they like to sprawl when they're really happy. Dianthus and Geranium as well. Impatients are finicky- some like shade, some like sun, it depends on the variety. Yours, I believe, like sun.