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vjarmitagevjarmitage Posts: 3
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please can someone identify this plant
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Delphinium?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • vjarmitagevjarmitage Posts: 3
    Definitely not delphinium. Have tried two plant finder apps but they couldn’t identify it. It appeared in my garden in the spring and has grown fast.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    It looks like a Woolly Foxglove - Digitalis lanata.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s a Delphinium Requienii .  I’ve probably spelt that wrong, but that’s what it is. 
    It’s only  an annual for me so you have to collect seeds and sow each year.  When they’re bigger the slugs don’t eat them like the other Delphs. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I agree with Lyn, Delphinium requenii


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Absolutely right @Lyn … I’ve grown it here for several years. 😊 

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I know @Dovefromabove,  it’s your seeds I had.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    vjarmitage said:
    Definitely not delphinium. Have tried two plant finder apps but they couldn’t identify it. It appeared in my garden in the spring and has grown fast.
    Definitely is, just not one of the usual garden centre ones. Biennial (or annual if you start early enough)


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I don't think the leaves are right for D.lanata.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    punkdoc said:
    I don't think the leaves are right for D.lanata.
    It’s D. requenii … I’ve grown it here … several folk here have had the seeds. 

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





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