plant identifcation (forum)

Mike w starts with ...
Can someone identify this plant please, it appeared in a pot and I'm wondering what it is
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Time: 20th May 2018 3:29pm

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Julie says...
Let it grow a bit - still too small to tell. It does look like a vinca, but you wouldn't know till it flowered.

Time: 21st May 2018 9:43pm

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Mike w says...
Originally there was a bush lemon seed in the pot but this popped up, I think something has invaded LOL


Time: 22nd May 2018 7:51pm

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Mike Tr says...
It looks familiar and may soon have a purple or white flower.

Time: 24th May 2018 7:59am

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Manfred says...
I'm with Julie on this one. Vinca major - periwinkle. The enlarging button doesn't work for me so I might be wrong, but I'd be nervous if it came up somewhere I didn't already have it.

(Great groundcover though if you don't want to grow anything else.)

Time: 24th May 2018 7:21pm

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Julie says...
Manfred, are you saying that vinca is invasive? I've never found it so. Haven't grown any for years, as they seem to die on me for no apparent reason. And I'm a careful gardener!

Time: 28th May 2018 8:57pm

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Manfred says...
It certainly is. It's one of the worst. I'm in despair in one patch of garden where it has overgrown a healthy japonica (Coleonema pulchrum -I think)and is coming through some bush roses.

One of my neighbours has it coming up in some soil they had delivered to backfill a retaining wall - it's the only thing coming up so far.

I have the variegated and the plain, and the plain is definitely more vigorous than the variegated. Where the two compete, the plain wins out!

Time: 29th May 2018 10:50am

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denise1 says...
There is a wild vinca and also an annual one sold in nurseries. They are similar. but when together dont match.

Time: 29th May 2018 3:24pm

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Mike w says...
I'm thinking now its an Inpatients, they are nearby



Time: 29th May 2018 10:20pm

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Julie says...
Mmm, don't think so.

https://www.thespruce.com/downy-mildew-1402526


Still think it's a vinca, but let us know when it flowers, just out of curiosity!


Time: 30th May 2018 6:32pm

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Mike w says...
will do

Time: 4th June 2018 7:23pm

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