please id this for me
By Mookins
Norfolk,
United Kingdom 
i have this growing up the side of my house, beautiful deep pink flower that look velvety but feel like those on a petunia, the petals are like "lips" with long stamen? inside where the pollen is
hairless with many lanceolate leaves growing all around the main stem
I thought it may have been the spring pea but wrong time of year and the leaves differ
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14 Sep, 2009
Answers
ok will see what I can do
no twine bits or feelers just itself!!
give me two mins
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14 Sep, 2009
So is it more of a shrub that happens to be growing against a wall? Height? Evergreen?
14 Sep, 2009
its grown up in between a wall and a pavement, about 10cms high, not sure about the evergreen the stem is quite woody lowest to the ground and as it goes up its green.
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sorry im no good at descriptions, have added pcitures though
14 Sep, 2009
It looks for all the world like an antirrhinum to me, but 100mm is a bit tall, they're usually between 25 and 50 mm max.
14 Sep, 2009
Il google it Bamboo
just measured the last one by the wall (the one i didnt break off) and thats 16cms high!!!
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14 Sep, 2009
Antirrhinum - presumably its popped up on its own - they do that! Pretty colour
14 Sep, 2009
Wow...Antirrhinum-Snapdragon...
thought they were spring plants?
it has the spots under some of the leaves from some disease Ive just read about on the RhS -Puccinia antirrhini
will have a look at nearby gardens see if anyone has any
glad I didnt weed killer it
cheers Bamboo, can always count on you
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14 Sep, 2009
Except I have trouble with measurements - I still think in feet and inches! I think you're telling me its over 3 feet? Which is a bit tall for an antirrhinum, though there are ones that get to 3 feet.
14 Sep, 2009
oh my goodness no
only a little thing hehe
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14 Sep, 2009
the leaves look wrong for snap dragons on this shot though.
14 Sep, 2009
Yep....snapdragon......I have some very tall ones this year and the flowers have lasted months, the same thin pointed leaf too.
14 Sep, 2009
Can you put another pic from further away, so we can see the whole plant, if poss, plus a shot of the leaves, in your gallery? Cos I'll want to see the flowers again as well, I expect! Does it twine or is it clinging by petioles, like clematis? Reminds me of antirrhinum flowers...
14 Sep, 2009