Plant seen recently growing in UK

[Maggi Young]

This Plant  was seen recently in Bury St Edmunds in the UK - not a native, I reckon- I feel I should know it      Help? 

 

[Maggi Young]

 Ian has suggested Chaenostoma cordatum   also known as   Sutera cordata   ?
Any other ideas?

[Matt T]

Ian has suggested Chaenostoma cordatum   also known as   Sutera cordata   ?
Any other ideas?

Looks like a good ID to me. A hanging basket escapee?

[Maggi Young]

I would guess so - unless someone is trying it deliberately in the wall. Doing rather well  - meantime! Won't stand much of a winter, will it?  (Where is Bury St. Edmunds, anyway? Down in  south east  England somewhere?)

[mark smyth]

I'd say hanging basket escapee also

[Matt T]

I would case so - unless someone is trying it deliberately in the wall. Doing rather well  - meantime! Won't stand much of a winter, will it?  (Where is Bury St. Edmunds, anyway? Down in  south east  England somewhere?)

I laughed! Bury St Edmund's is in Suffolk so technically East Anglia, but SE in relation to Scotland certainly.

Some of these bedding plants can be tougher than you'd expect. In a well drained wall it's possible that it might survive?

[David Nicholson]

(Where is Bury St. Edmunds, anyway? Down in  south east  England somewhere?)

East Anglia-Suffolk

[Maggi Young]

Is that not S.E. England, then?  Geography never my strong point, obviously! 

[Matt T]

I have no need for geography, everywhere is S.E. in relation to me!

[Maggi Young]

I have no need for geography, everywhere is S.E. in relation to me!

  That's true  .......apart from Iceland.........

[Lesley Cox]

(Where is Bury St. Edmunds, anyway? Down in  south east  England somewhere?)

Oh Maggi, even I know where Bury St Edmunds is. R and I stayed in a B and B there before flying out of Heathrow next day. The owners of the B and B let me use their garden and facilities, (hose, rubbish bags, table etc, and offered to dispose of the bags later) so I could bareroot and wash planrts to bring home. That was back in the day of course...

[Alan_b]

(Where is Bury St. Edmunds, anyway? Down in  south east  England somewhere?)

Or where's this Scotland people mention from time to time?

[Maggi Young]

Or where's this Scotland people mention from time to time?

Poor Alan - I am unable to place a small  English town but he has lost a whole country !  

Scotland is a large land mass to the north of you, Alan - with a population of around 6 million - a country providing oil, electricity and water and a sheet anchor to stop southern England falling into the sea. 

[art600]

 

[Alan_b]

Thanks, Maggi.  Down south we were hearing quite a lot about a place called 'Scotland' a few months ago but it seems to have dropped out of the news now.  I'm in Cambridge which is on a similar latitude to Bury St. Edmunds and not very far away by comparison to the humongous distance to get to even the North of England, let alone to venture beyond.