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Wildflower ID please!

matt_fendermatt_fender Posts: 169
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Hi all, hoping for an ID on the following please:

This first one pops up all over our garden, with primrose like leaves to start with. I have been removing, but left a couple to go to flower just to see what they are. Could this be Pulmonaria Angustifolia? Very hairy leaves.



This second one is a single plant, quite unusual in that it has a single, very long stem with this flower and another few buds at the very top:



thanks!

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    2 is flax
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • matt_fendermatt_fender Posts: 169
    Thanks @B3. That is not a million miles away (OK, about a yard away) from our bird feeders, so perhaps that would explain it.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • matt_fendermatt_fender Posts: 169
    Thanks @wild edges that is definitely a match! Quite nice actually, we get a lot of them dotted around the garden so perhaps I will go a little gentler on them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Green alkanet is a real PITA. If I were you I would try to get rid of it ... you won’t succeed but at least you might be able to control it. 

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





  • matt_fendermatt_fender Posts: 169
    @Dovefromabove I have been pretty ruthless with it over the last couple of years - the one above is the only one from perhaps hundreds I have ripped out as seedlings that somehow made it through. Perhaps I shouldn't let this one set seed though. It is quite pretty!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Don’t let it set seed 😱

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





  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    Agree - our garden was full of green alkanet - I like the flowers and keep a few plants for the bees, which love them.  But they're thugs, especially in the shade, so dig a few up year after year before the root gets too far down!
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