Plant and seedling identification please

I must be more organised in future!

I'm sure this first photo must have been a cutting taken last summer:


These tatty looking bulb things were transplanted last summer - what are they and what should I be doing with them?


The next two are seedlings, pricked out last year. They could be from a packet (although I've looked at all the packets I have and nothing comes to mind), or they could be from collected seed:


and


I'd really appreciate some help and promise to be more organised in future!

 

Hello again, linlin. I am pretty useless in the ID department and am usually asking for help myself. :rolleyes:

However, your first little shrublet looks very much like the young leaves of the Solanum laciniatum, which freely seeds itself around the Botanical Gardens. We had a large one on the property and I had one here which unfortunately died.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp12/solanum-laciniatum.html

I'm sure someone will come along and help you with the others.

 

linlin, I think the first is Argyranthemum and the second Agapanthus. Not sure on the following two, though.

 

I think you may well be right David about no 1.

I'm not sure about anything there at all. :confused:

 

daitheplant - that's excellent. The first must be from some collected seed. The second looks likely and the BBC website describe it as suitable for coastal areas and it must be a hardy variety although I've never seen it flower.

I'm wondering if one of the two seedlings are shasta daisy - would anyone be able to confirm?

 

Hi, I'm back and still holding out for the Solanum ... it depends where you "took your cutting from" linlin. :D

I don't think the second photo is Agapanthus at all ... it's clump forming and the leaves go yellow and die rather than start off crispy looking.

The last seedlings look familiar but I can't say what ... as to Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum) it's difficult to say. That was popular in the States.

We may have to wait for flowers to appear to identify.

 

The last seedlings could be Shastas now you mention it, as LOL says, we may have to wait for the flowers. Agapanthus are clump formimg, and to me, that photo shows that they are forming a clump.

 

If i had to guess at no2, I'd say crinum, and your shasta daisy sounds good LoL

 

1st. one kinda like a Margarita of sorts.

last one rather like young pansies. :confused:

 

Tequila? :D

 

Sorry, I'm having a blank moment jumping between cooking and computer ...

The second photo ... they are coming into bloom here and grow wild all over Cornwall and perhaps Devon, coastal ranges, orange coloured flowers, lots on stems, strappy leaves ... Montbrretia?

Gotta go ... catch you all later ...

 

I'd doubt the 1st one is Solanum laciniatum, it just doesn't seem to look right. But the BBC website shows a completely different photo when searching just the word "solanum" and now I think I know what Lady of Leisure is referring to. Great tall-stemed plants with blue flowers, grow in various places around Ventnor. Thanks for the thought, but I have one of those, and photo one isn't the same plant. I'm far more likely to have an Argyranthemum, as suggested by daitheplant.
Also think daitheplant is right on the second photo with Agapanthus. It's a lily type plant that's probably been too dry to flower, so will move it closer to a water butt!
I'm fairly sure the 3rd photo is shasta daisy, and will know tomorrow as I have a small clump in the garden.
That leaves (pardon the pun), photo no. 4 - could be a wild flower????

 

linlin, I think number 4 IS the Shasta .

 

Told you I got confused easily, didn't I??

You're right again Dai, it's photo number 3 is the unidentified one!!

 

I think we are going to have to wait on that one lin.