Plant Identification

[tiggerblue10]

I've been taking loads of pics over the last few weeks on my school runs etc. As you may have guessed I'm pretty naff with plant names so grateful for some help. I think the ones at the bottom are snowdrops but what do I know!! Ha

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[Fitzer]

Crocus
Crocus
Primrose
No idea
No Idea
Crocus
No Idea
Snowdrop
Leastways that's what I reckon and what I remember from the order I looked at them :-)

[seekeerz]

5th - polyanthus

[calmck]

5 pansy or primula maybe one of each

[haras2]

4 looks a bit Heathery

[Togo]

5 is Primula both of them.

[Togo]

6 looks like Iris.

[Togo]

7 is again Primula.

[237SJ]

6 is a type of crocus. I don't know which variety but I planted some in the lawn some years ago.

[237SJ]

3 is wild primrose as opposed to the primula/polyanthus that you see in gardens. The hedgerows and fields in Devon will be alive with them in early April.

[tiggerblue10]

Cheers all, gonna write these down so I don't forget!

[Togo]

4 is a puzzle not helped by the blurred image and there being two totally different plants in shot. The evergreen looks suspiciously like a Juniper shrub and the pinkish one looks like a Sedum. Some Sedums are refered to as stonecrop.

[tiggerblue10]

The blurred one was taken just after the storms when it was still windy. I'll take another one tomorrow if I remember. That plant is less than a minute up my road.

[Buenchico]

Just a tip for you:

I assume that you're using your phone to take the pictures. If so, I recommend installing the LeafSnap app. It's amazingly accurate at identifying plants. (It's a freebie that would, unsurprisingly, like you to upgrade to the paid version but that's totally unnecessary to get it to do its basic task of identifying plants accurately).

Android version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=plant.identification.snap&hl=en_GB&gl=US

iOS version:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leafsnap-plant-identification/id1487972880

[Barmaid]

Buenchico

We have tried that app (and many others) since moving into our new house just over a year ago. We have found all of the apps, without exception, to be pretty useless. I have found the best way is to snap a pic and send to people I know or to post on websites (AB being one of them).

[Togo]

Tiggs ... the green one. If you pinch just a bit between thumb and index finger and smell it Juniper has a very distinctive aroma. It smells like Gin and will clear your sinuses for sure if it is.

[Buenchico]

I wonder if you're getting close enough to the plants that you photograph with the app, Barmaid. You really need to get in close to get decent results from it.

I was at Green Island Gardens
https://www.greenislandgardens.co.uk/
with a friend last Friday. She really knows her plants, having lectured in horticulture and run a garden design business. She can usually rattle off the Latin name of any plant, along with numerous common names for it, easily. However there was just one plant that stumped her last week. I used the LeafSnap app to try to identify it but my friend cast doubts upon its primary suggestion. Later, however, she asked the owner of the gardens about it and she confirmed that LeafSnap had actually got it right.

[Prudie]

4 is almost definitely a heather variety with dried up flowers. I'm really pleased you've got such good answers Tiggs but I find it really sad that people grow up not being able to instantly recognise some of our most famous spring plants such as snowdrops, crocus and primrose varieties :-(
I was lucky enough to be taught about flowers by my mother but I know many are not.

[Barmaid]

I think we are doing it right. Tbh, the best advice I have had is from my parents (dad a retired farmer and mum an extremely good gardener), normally one of them comes up with an answer.

No 4 could be a type of juniper. We've got a juniper tree. It's a prickly so and so (great for Christmas decs, but I am still getting spikes in my feet now). As as been said, you can smell juniper. But there are are many different types of juniper.

The purple ones are def crocus; the coloured ones are primroses or polyanthus - the latter will have several flower heads per stem.

[237SJ]

When I was a junior school the teacher used to take us out on walks and we would pick flowers (I know you can't do that nowadays). We would then take them back to the classroom find out the names and the latin names and press them into our nature books. I had those books for years and I've never forgotten the happy memories of doing that.

[tiggerblue10]

I did think about getting an app, Chris but one of the apps charges a fee I think.

Togo, it was the brown plant with the peachy pink buds I was after but I've seen the green bushy one in loads of places but never knew what it was. They are in someone's front garden so not sure I want to pinch the leaves. I'll have a go early in the morning though.

Prudie, my nan only loved roses, dahlias, carnations, chrysans, hydrangeas, sweet peas, and pansies etc. These are the ones I don't recognise.