random plants and flowers in our garden - help please

we only moved here last year and things are popping up that I don't know what they are. any help greatly appreciated. some are quite probably weeds but I don't know. (I must also confess though that I have planted a few and my 2 year old ran off with the name card for one and shredded it and I have forgotten what it was and others I have just forgotten from seed packets)



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both of these please - no idea of either

I assume this one is a weed but curious as very strange looking


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I planted these ones in my big mixed wild flower, meadowy type seeds down the bottom of the garden but have forgotten what everything was - they smell lovely


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this seems to cover large areas of the bottom of our garden so assume weed but not sure, didn't realise it flowered until today


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I bought and planted this one but can't remember what it is (it was bright orange)


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I bought this one a few years ago and it was in a pot in our old place, when we moved I thought it was probably dead but planted it anyway and it has sprung back to life. what is it though?


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I rescued this one from the old rockery type flowerbed and replanted it and it looks happy enough now and is growing but I don't know what it is


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and this is a big bush in the front garden that surprised me with the purpley flowers this week


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thanks

 

1. daylily 2.quaking grass 3.phlox i think 4. no idea cant see properly 5.+6. oxalis 7.not sure 8.sedum 9.hebe i think

 

Just to add the missed one.
8. Fuchsia.
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7. Looks like Oxalis Sunset Velvet.

 

I think 7 if Fuchsia too, but could be Weigela

 

No.5 looks like Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella); it's a lovely delicate wild flower often found in woods and hedgerows..

Pretty much agree with everything else :thumb:

 

thank you, that is brilliant.

didn't realise that grassy stuff wasn't just a random weed, it didn't look like it was going to be very interesting when it popped up but then I saw the little nodding bits on it and thought it looked quite nice. it can stay then, is filling in a nice patch in the front. nice to know names for things, I will write everything down on a little drawing of the garden I think, less chance of me 'weeding' things by mistake later in the year then.

looked up wood sorrel and it definitely is that, it looks so pretty - I thought it was just another weed as well but it was down in a rocky raised bed which I have just covered with wildflower seed and a bird table and am leaving to nature so I left it to cover the ground and then the little flowers appeared. just shows 'weeding' can do more harm than good doesn't it.

thanks all

 

Just add to that 9. is a Sedum. If that's what you said Marley, sorry, haven't heard it called an ice plant before.

 

on looking some of those up we have some more unexpected flowers to come then which is very nice. I am starting to wonder what some of the other things I keep cutting down are now!

thanks

 

Sedum & Ice Plant are the same (one Latin, the other Not !)

 

They say you should do nothing for a year so you can find out what is in the garden, when you move to a new house :thumb:

 

I can see why. mind I couldn't have left the back - a lot of it was a jungle and we have 2 small children. I tried to go for the approach of if it was jungle like then cut it back/detangle it/pull it out if I didn't like it or it was dangerously thorny. if it was ivy I destroyed it as best I could and if it was a boulder I dug it up (lots of sunken rockeries which have all been turned back into flowerbeds - I replanted the bulbs and plants once I took the rocks out and they have all settled again pretty well - and then we have made a lovely new rockery with all the rocks. I think looking back we have probably lost a couple of bushes or plants which would no doubt have been lovely but on the whole hopefully I only cut out stuff that had to be. I have managed to reshape a few bushes which were really overgrown and out of shape but did give up with one and cut it down and planted a camellia instead. Had no idea buddleias could go so mental though, in the back garden next to the conservatory we have what looks like it was 2 buddleia trees, one white, one pinkypurpley and then about 80 small ones growing round the bottom of them. good thing I like them!

I have taken photos as well which is a tip someone gave me so that come the autumn I don't accidentally pull up something thinking it is dead

 

"Had no idea buddleias could go so mental though,"

Yeah, they end to do that. Cut them down to 18" - 24" in late Winter. Some say cut half the plant down then, and then the other half in late March, and the two halves will flower at different times and extend the flowering. But I've not tried it ...

 

ooh now that sounds interesting - might try that, there seem to be so many bits I have nothing to lose! the tree bits are taller than the conservatory and the smaller bits are probably about hip height (I have a feeling I pulled a load out in the winter anyway whilst trying to get all the ivy out, I had to cut down an enormous tree of it because it was completely covered in ivy)

 

oh and it would be nice if number 7 was a fuchsia. I did have a few but my husband packed up the garden when we moved (I was a bit busy with the kids) and I thought it had either got left behind or died off. they are one of my favourite flowers so as it now looks really healthy it would be great if it was. seems lighter leaves than the ones I have bought this year though so I hadn't thought about it being one but now you have suggested it I can see the leaf similarities.

also very impressed with the big hebe, I bought 2 tiny ones this year but didn't know what they looked like when mature. now I do!