A couple of weeks ago I posted the following question:-

"Have been trying to identify a trailing plant with white flowers just less
than 1 inch across which are seen probably for 6 weeks or so from March
onwards in the UK. Can anyone tell me what they are? My neighbours have them
but of course they don't know either. Hopefully an easy one for somebody to
answer."
The general concensus on the forum was that I was referring to Vinca Minor,
but having located Vinca I think it is something else.

I have now managed to plant some samples in my garden which can be seen
he-
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/DSC01722.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC01721-1.jpg

Does anybody now know what they are? They are just beginning to flower.

Thanks for any help,

R

On 30 Jan, 13:39, "Rooster" wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I posted the following question:-
"Have been trying to identify a trailing plant with white flowers just less
than 1 inch across which are seen probably for 6 weeks or so from March
onwards in the UK. Can anyone tell me what they are? My neighbours have them
but of course they don't know either. Hopefully an easy one for somebody to
answer."
The general concensus on the forum was that I was referring to Vinca Minor,
but having located Vinca I think it is something else.

Looks like a struggling alyssum. Are the flowers single or in grapes
and how many petals?

"Rooster" wrote in message
.uk...
A couple of weeks ago I posted the following question:-

"Have been trying to identify a trailing plant with white flowers just
less than 1 inch across which are seen probably for 6 weeks or so from
March onwards in the UK. Can anyone tell me what they are? My neighbours
have them but of course they don't know either. Hopefully an easy one for
somebody to answer."
The general concensus on the forum was that I was referring to Vinca
Minor, but having located Vinca I think it is something else.

I have now managed to plant some samples in my garden which can be seen
he-
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/DSC01722.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC01721-1.jpg

Does anybody now know what they are? They are just beginning to flower.

Thanks for any help,

R

Perhaps a form of Cerastium , snow in summer.

On 30 Jan, 13:55, "La Puce" wrote:
On 30 Jan, 13:39, "Rooster" wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I posted the following question:-
"Have been trying to identify a trailing plant

Looks like a struggling alyssum. Are the flowers single or in grapes
and how many petals?

ps. Also it reminds me of wallflowers.

"Rooster" wrote
snip
I have now managed to plant some samples in my garden which can be
seen he-
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/DSC01722.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC01721-1.jpg

Does anybody now know what they are? They are just beginning to
flower.

Could be Iberis sempervirens - that's a small sub-shrubby, perennial
type of candytuft, with masses of white flowers in spring. I find it
responds well to a good trim after it's finished, which keeps it neat.
Check Google images for pictures to compare with your plants.

--
Sue

"Sue" wrote in message
reenews.net...

"Rooster" wrote
snip
I have now managed to plant some samples in my garden which can be seen
he-
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/DSC01722.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC01721-1.jpg

Does anybody now know what they are? They are just beginning to flower.

Could be Iberis sempervirens - that's a small sub-shrubby, perennial

I would go with that (rather than Rupert's suggestion of the Cerastium
tomentosum which is visibly hairy).


type of candytuft, with masses of white flowers in spring. I find it
responds well to a good trim after it's finished, which keeps it neat.
Check Google images for pictures to compare with your plants.

Looks bang on!

Des


--
Sue

On 30 Jan, 14:56, "Sue" wrote:
Could be Iberis sempervirens - that's a small sub-shrubby, perennial
type of candytuft, with masses of white flowers in spring. I find it
responds well to a good trim after it's finished, which keeps it neat.
Check Google images for pictures to compare with your plants.

Yes! But iberis are a bit smaller, I feel. Unless it hasn't been
tidied as you suggest hence it's straggly appearance ;o)

"Des Higgins" wrote in message
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"Sue" wrote in message
reenews.net...

"Rooster" wrote
snip
I have now managed to plant some samples in my garden which can be seen
he-
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/DSC01722.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC01721-1.jpg

Does anybody now know what they are? They are just beginning to flower.

Could be Iberis sempervirens - that's a small sub-shrubby, perennial

I would go with that (rather than Rupert's suggestion of the Cerastium
tomentosum which is visibly hairy).


type of candytuft, with masses of white flowers in spring. I find it
responds well to a good trim after it's finished, which keeps it neat.
Check Google images for pictures to compare with your plants.

Looks bang on!

Des


--
Sue


Yes Iberis-just testing you. Obviously unpruned.

"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message


Yes Iberis-just testing you. Obviously unpruned.


What did people do before google and usenet?
Folks all over the world had bits of plants that they inherited from their
grannies or that were growing there when they moved in or which they bought
but had comepletely forgotten their names and when you asked what it was
they would look vague and change the subject or mumble something like:
"could it be a kind of bluebell" while pointing at something 3 metres tall
and smelling of damp badger.

On 30 Jan, 16:28, "Des Higgins" wrote:
What did people do before google and usenet?
Folks all over the world had bits of plants that they inherited from their
grannies or that were growing there when they moved in or which they bought
but had comepletely forgotten their names and when you asked what it was
they would look vague and change the subject or mumble something like:
"could it be a kind of bluebell" while pointing at something 3 metres tall
and smelling of damp badger.

So true. I've been given a little plant, clover leaf type with danty
little pink flowers, (something which I wouldn't have chosen at all)
which belonged to my husband's grand mother. His aunt gave me a small
pot on which she had glued lots of shells she had found on the shore
(sunderland). I was so numb with laughter, I haved forgotten the name
of the plant, but remember the laugh )) Now I still don't know the
name, and all the shells have dropped off the pot.

I try not to google when I'm trying to identify something. It makes me
think harder. You start looking at leaves more in details, and in this
case the size which is still a bit of my problem with Iberis, as far
as I can see...

Rooster writes
A couple of weeks ago I posted the following question:-

"Have been trying to identify a trailing plant with white flowers just less
than 1 inch across which are seen probably for 6 weeks or so from March
onwards in the UK. Can anyone tell me what they are? My neighbours have them
but of course they don't know either. Hopefully an easy one for somebody to
answer."
The general concensus on the forum was that I was referring to Vinca Minor,
but having located Vinca I think it is something else.

I have now managed to plant some samples in my garden which can be seen
he-
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/DSC01722.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...DSC01721-1.jpg

Does anybody now know what they are? They are just beginning to flower.

Definitely not Vinca!

Leaves look like perennial candytuft, but that has lots of tiny white
four petalled flowers in heads about an inch across.
--
Kay

On 30 Jan 2007 08:43:10 -0800, "La Puce" wrote:

I've been given a little plant, clover leaf type with danty
little pink flowers, (something which I wouldn't have chosen at all)
which belonged to my husband's grand mother. His aunt gave me a small
pot on which she had glued lots of shells she had found on the shore
(sunderland). I was so numb with laughter, I haved forgotten the name
of the plant, but remember the laugh )) Now I still don't know the
name, and all the shells have dropped off the pot.

I have something similar which came originally from my grandfather.
It is oxalis articulata, not invasive, and flowers most of the summer.
It is one of the first things I would take from my garden if I moved.
It's called "articulata" I think because the tubers / corms (?) build
up a jointed-like appearance.

Pam in Bristol

On 31 Jan, 23:30, Pam Moore wrote:
I have something similar which came originally from my grandfather.
It is oxalis articulata, not invasive, and flowers most of the summer.
It is one of the first things I would take from my garden if I moved.
It's called "articulata" I think because the tubers / corms (?) build
up a jointed-like appearance.

Pam, thank you so much. I've looked at pictures of oxalis articulata
and bingo. I had devided it a few years ago and gave to two
neighbours. Really sturdy little thing - especially I didn't like it
that much - now I would try anything to keep it ) Thanks again.

On Jan 31, 11:30 pm, Pam Moore wrote:
On 30 Jan 2007 08:43:10 -0800, "La Puce" wrote:

I've been given a little plant, clover leaf type with danty
little pink flowers, (something which I wouldn't have chosen at all)
which belonged to my husband's grand mother. His aunt gave me a small
pot on which she had glued lots of shells she had found on the shore
(sunderland). I was so numb with laughter, I haved forgotten the name
of the plant, but remember the laugh )) Now I still don't know the
name, and all the shells have dropped off the pot.

I have something similar which came originally from my grandfather.
It is oxalis articulata, not invasive, and flowers most of the summer.
It is one of the first things I would take from my garden if I moved.
It's called "articulata" I think because the tubers / corms (?) build
up a jointed-like appearance.

Pam in Bristol

Sounds like an Oxalis alright.

"Des Higgins" wrote in message
. ie...

"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message


Yes Iberis-just testing you. Obviously unpruned.


What did people do before google and usenet?
Folks all over the world had bits of plants that they inherited from their
grannies or that were growing there when they moved in or which they
bought but had comepletely forgotten their names and when you asked what
it was they would look vague and change the subject or mumble something
like:
"could it be a kind of bluebell" while pointing at something 3 metres tall
and smelling of damp badger.

Totally true and the duff name is then promulgated .
I do still resort to the RHS books to find the pink flowered thing with an
ovate leaf that flowers in March and is only a few inches high.
The Garden centres must be castigated for spelling the names wrongly on
labels. 10,000 cardocrinus (cardiocrinum) distributed throughout Europe (and
Ireland) creates a whole new generation of miseducated:-)