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    at the back of my new(ish) garden there are some plants growing that look interesting but i dont know if they are weeds or not! I cant take pics yet as recently broke my camera but i thought i'd try and describe them. They are groing in quite rough, shady ground and have a stem and leaves a little bit like a foxglove (not the shape, just the habit) the flowers, again group at the top like the foxglove but they look like teeny weeny bunny rabbits (cant spell proper name but hope you know what i mean!). The flowers are pinky mauve. I know its a tall order without a pic but if anyone can do it you guys can!!!

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    Do the leaves have white spots on them? If so they could be pulmonaria.
    Not really sure what you mean about tiny bunny rabbits though!
    Forbidden Fruits make many Jams.

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    • #3
      Snapdragons ?
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      Last edited by binley100; 06-06-2010, 09:33 PM.
      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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      • #4
        Honesty?
        Is Honesty a wild flower? - Wild About Britain
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Sounds a bit more like Comfrey. Flowers are pink or white. If it is leave it, it makes very good plant food!
          Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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          • #6
            I think it's comfrey too. Well done!
            Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

            www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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            • #7
              ditto from me too with a pic

              Comfrey Plant Picture Gallery
              The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

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              • #8
                And yet another one for comfrey.

                Pick some of the leaves, steep em in water and water your toms with stinking liquor ....lovely stuff!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  Originally posted by raine View Post
                  The flowers are pinky mauve.
                  Comfrey comes in white, yellow or purple, but pinky mauve?
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                    Comfrey comes in white, yellow or purple, but pinky mauve?
                    Yep, the comfrey that grows down the lane here is pinky-mauve.
                    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                    • #11
                      OK, fair do's
                      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Flummery View Post
                        Yep, the comfrey that grows down the lane here is pinky-mauve.
                        Ours is skyblue pink
                        S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                        a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                        You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                          Ours is skyblue pink
                          ... with a finny-haddock border?
                          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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