Solved any gardeners here?

[mickey megabyte]

a friend of mine gave me some plants last winter to stick in my garden - he didn't know what they were called.

well, they're in flower now - anybody here know what they are?



scale: each petal is about an inch long (2.5cm to our younger readers )

sorry about the focus - cheap camera phone!

 

[Borg 386]

My wife won't let me garden, she says every time I grow something, I get in trouble....

 

[pebbly]

Not 100% sure but looks like "scabious" to me ,will have a quick google

 

[pebbly]

this is the giant variety

 

[mickey megabyte]

thanks pebbles, but it doesn't look much like scabious to me.

my petals are long and thin, and the foliage looks different too.

doing some googling myself, the closest seems to be:

Bupthalmum:

or inula:

but the leaves don't look the same.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Inula family maybe...................

 

[pebbly]

Would go with the Helenium (Inula) have a look at this one

 

[mickey megabyte]

aha - now that looks like it.

thanks for your help pebbles and wolfie - minor mystery solved!

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