Can anyone tell me what this is?

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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  April 2019

  Euphorbia of some description. Milky sap if it is, but watch out, the sap is rather nasty if you get it near your eyes.
  

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  April 2019

  I think it may be linaria (toadflax).

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• Nanniemo Posts: 226

  April 2019

  I agree with Linaria, I have it in my garden it pops up everywhere. Easy to pull out if you don’t want it.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  April 2019

  Lovely purple flowers and a good mixer.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  April 2019

  They pop up all over my garden too and as said above you can pull them out of you don't want them.
  Spires of blue flowers (I also grow the cultivated pink Canon Went variety) that don't need staking and blue/green foliage - lovely free plants

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2019 edited April 2019

  Yes ... linaria .... had it all over our last garden ... a pretty thing and the bees love it ... and it’s easy to hoik out if it’s where you don’t want it.  If it’s a bit overcrowded thin it out and you’ll get some decent sized plants. 
  https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/linaria-purpurea/
  
  Theres a particularly choice variety ... anyone remember what it’s called?  I’m thinking it might be just what I need for a particular spot ...
  
  Edited to add:  Found it 😊 https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_813L_linaria_purpurea_canon_went

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  April 2019

  I got seed for Canon Went last year from Chiltern.
  Sowed in June last year, they've already grown into big plants and I've dotted them around the same area I have the blue variety in my new white/blue/pink/silver border

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• rjpearce80 Posts: 2

  April 2019

  Thanks everyone 😁😁 there will be more posts like this as I figure out what everything is in our relatively new garden 

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