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Help with plant identification

wood.sarah5wood.sarah5 Posts: 3
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about the same size as the forget me not in the background. Any ideas?
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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @wood.sarah5 Could be Verbena Homestead Purple but maybe too pale. Welcome!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • wood.sarah5wood.sarah5 Posts: 3
    Thank you Suze. My local garden centre suggested verbena but the ends of the leaves on my plant are much wider than the rest sort of paddle shape. Not pointed like the Verbenas. 
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited June 2022
    Erinus alpinus ...common name fairy foxglove.
    Flower can be mauve, pink or white.
    Here it grows in very old walls in the limestone mortar.

    I love it.e 
    I love it.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • wood.sarah5wood.sarah5 Posts: 3
    Brilliant!! Just googled it and it’s my plant exactly. Thank you so much silver surfer you’ve saved me a lot of frustration 
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Sorry amended my post above to add pics.
    Welcome to the forums!
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    That is a lovely plant something new to me, lovely photos too.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Lovely flower, do they do well from seed Silver surfer?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited June 2022
    Uff said:
    Lovely flower, do they do well from seed Silver surfer?
    I think it gritty limey ground they would thrive.
    i have mine in the garden in soil where they are not totally happy...but they are slowly seeding around.

    They are tiny...many be just a couple of inches.

    In old walls they grow taller.

    A local  acquaintance had the pink clone  in the gravel on a patio...they filled every crack. I was green with envy!
    I asked for a plant but never got it.
    Since then a kind friend gave me the pink clone to join my mauve one.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Thank you. I think I'll get some seed and try growing them in my drystone walls
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Uff said:
    Thank you. I think I'll get some seed and try growing them in my drystone walls
    Remember up here they are in the lime mortar between the stone.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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