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UrbanNoviceUrbanNovice Posts: 29
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This has popped up in a shady area but I don't remember planting it. Google seems to suggest Aquilegia - can you confirm? Thanks.




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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Yes it is, don’t know what variety but definitely an aquilegia. It’s very pretty, we have lots popping up but all pinks and purples
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Confirmed!!
  • UrbanNoviceUrbanNovice Posts: 29
    Lovely - thank you. Nice to have forgotten what you/nature have planted/sown when you get pleasant surprises. :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They’re biennial so it’s two years since you sowed it so you’re excused 😉 
    learn to recognise the leaves as they’re pretty promiscuous and self seed different versions of themselves around the garden. Lovely things. 😊 

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





  • UrbanNoviceUrbanNovice Posts: 29

    I would be very happy with any self-seeding to fill in a few gaps - although I may regret that later!

    Actually, I do now recall seeing the Aquilegia leaves before it grew and flowered. The reason for this is that a cat used to visit the garden at 6 am every morning for his daily emetic. It would sit on (what I now know to be) the Aquilegia leaves while eating a nearby Carex/sedge before scaling a fence post, vomiting into the garden and departing. I ended up sticking 30 cm lengths of upright bamboo cane among the Aquilegia leaves to make this uncomfortable for the cat. The cat simply found another position to eat the Carex but at least the Aquilegia made it to flowering!

  • Lynda Jones2Lynda Jones2 Posts: 4
    Dose any one know what plant this is thanks
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    @Lynda Jones2 Just bumping up your thread for you. It is better if you start your own thread rather than tag on to the end of someone else's as it can easily be missed. If you don't get an answer this time just start a new thread of your own with your ID request.  :)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Digitalis - Foxglove. 
    Always better to start a new thread though  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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