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Wild flower ID

Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
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Can anyone name these lovely flowers that have come up in our wild flower patch.  They were included in a packet of wild flower seed.  Thank you.
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  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    edited July 2018
    The top two look like linaria (toadflax).
    The bottom one Himalayan balsam. 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2018
    I'll go with toadflax for the first two.

    The bottom one isn't Himalayn balsam ... it's Clarkia unguiculata

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkia_unguiculata 

     :) 



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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I love the Toadflax, such a simple little plant but so loved by bees (and me)
    cut it back when it’s finished and it may bloom again for you.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Clarkia. I've never seen that one Dove, thanks 😊.
    It was the bits like H/B seed pods that fooled me 😵.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    both of those are a blast from the past for me. My mother grew them in the fifties plus another one called Godetia. I think the Linaria might be L. maroccana. Not wild flowers for the UK but very pretty


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes @nutcutlet I remember them from my childhood too ... the old chaps in the village grew them and sold them in bunches of mixed cottage garden flowers at their garden gates, along with their excess fruit and veg  :)

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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Thank you for helping to name them - aren't any of them native to the Great Britain?  The names sound very "English".  Having said that my Dutch niece gave me this packet selection of wild flower seeds. They are pretty, but I must admit I haven't looked too closely to watch for bees or butterflies on them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Think they're cultivated/improved forms of native Northern European plants
     :) 

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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Linaria covers a wide range of habitats.
    L. maroccana, I would guess from the name, is North african.
    I have a little, groundhugging, alpine toadflax that I bought about a month ago at a plant fair because the sight of it took me back to a long ago walk in the Swiss Alps, when I found it growing wild.
    And our native yellow and orange toadflax grows wild here, mostly in the bit of the garden that is now the veg. patch, but I leave it because it is so pretty and was here first :)
    There is a seed mix called 'Fairy Lights' that includes lots of different colours.


  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    nutcutlet said:
    both of those are a blast from the past for me. My mother grew them in the fifties plus another one called Godetia. I think the Linaria might be L. maroccana. Not wild flowers for the UK but very pretty
    The fifties were a couple of decades before I was a twinkle in my fathers eye 😉. I have grown godetia though and linaria maroccana is one of my favourites.

    A seed mix called "Fairy Bouquet" gave a lovely display of delicate flowers and has self seeded around the garden very nicely 😁.
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