Oh dear, oh dear, I thought Graham knew me better than to say I am a keen gardener! The truth is that I am a very reluctant gardener, thinking of the minimum I can get away with and then halving it. We grow a few fruit and veg, mainly some apple and pear trees, which get pruned about every 4th year, we grow tomatoes and new potatoes, and we have a group of raspberry canes which never get staked so they fall over when it rains and have a struggle to get up again, and they share their space with numerous tall grasses, hybrid Bluebells that arrived from next door, and the odd tree seedling. We sort of mow a 'lawn' at intervals, but not very often. That is as far as it gets. We have a number of decorative perennials, woody and herbaceous, but they have to fight it out, and I only know the names of a few of them. We have some huge 'weeds' of various kinds, some of which are given tender loving care. So, to ask me to identify a garden plant from a pic of the thing in fruit only, is a somewhat hopeless request. Sorry, Graham, no idea!
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