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Unknown wildflower - help please?

laura.bottlaura.bott Posts: 7
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Please could someone identify this purple/lilac coloured flower please? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2020
    Hello and welcome to the forum 😊

    Phacelia tanacetifolia aka Blue Tansy. 

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





  • OwlbearOwlbear Posts: 49
    edited July 2020
    Looks like Phacelia, a Californian plant that is sometimes included in 'bee mixes' as similar to Borage it apparently produces a lot of nectar:
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/23945/phacelia-tanacetifolia/details
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2020
    The purple tansy is in Borage family, favoured by bee keepers.
  • laura.bottlaura.bott Posts: 7
    Thanks all. Is there any way we can get them to come back next year? They were part of a bag of wildflower seeds which have turned out to be wonderful, but all annual I think 😔 Will they self seed?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Self seeds in my garden.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
     The cheapest way to buy it is in large packets labelled as for green manure. Same seed as in little packets for wildflower , but you get a huge amount for a little more than the tiny packets.



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