Lychnis coronaria

I think it looks like Lychnis coronaria Rose Campion, too. It is SOOOO pretty when it blooms. Very simple and elegant.

I third lychnis coronaria! Sowed some this year - hope they look as good as yours next year!

PV

Great! I have another plant like this on the other side(shown below). It looks very similar. However, I also would like to know the other plant I ws'd beside this Coronaria. I noticed today that it has some very few magenta flowers.

The plant I am referring to is the one in between dianthus and Coronaria. Is it Lamb's Ear? LOL :D

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Thanks for the ID!

The plant with soft velvety grey foliage looks like lamb's ears to me. My lamb's ears has light purple flowers on spikes 12-18" high.

The plant with the pink flowers looks like dianthus firewitch to me, but is a perennial dianthus for sure.

Let it go to seed and you will get plenty of seeds to WS next year and it will put on a smaller show of flowers late summer, early fall.

Fran

The plant between the dianthus and the Lychnis is Lamb's Ears. It will soon send up a spike with inconspicuous light purple flowers. The kids next door love it: they love to feel the leaves. Adds a little texture and softness to my very green rock garden.

Watch out for those lamb's ears! They can swallow up your whole yard in no time. Took me years to get rid of them. They can spread by both seed and stolens. It has been years since I had them but if I remember right I think they're in the mint family. 'nuff said.

Karen

Lamb's Ear and Rose Campion looks great together. I think you'll have an beautiful garden spot. The foliage does look very similar, but Lamb's Ear makes you want to turn it into a pet because it's so soft and silky. Rose Campion is just plain ol' fuzzy. I planted Lamb's Ear for my kids to have something to enjoy in the garden. Right now we have real baby chicks that are getting rocked to sleep and cuddled, so the Lamb's Ear is negelcted. But, they'll have fun with it later in the summer when the chicks have become big chickens.