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Plant ID Please - Brunnera?

YessicaHaircutYessicaHaircut Posts: 164
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This little beauty has appeared. :)




 I thought it looked like a brunnera, the plantnet app says it's likely a brunnera, but I wanted to check to see if that is the case. I was planning on adding one to the garden anyway, so I'm really hoping it is.

If so, it is possible to tell which cultivar it might be at this stage. Do they all have the blue forget-me-notish flowers? Is it ok just to dig it up and move it now or does it need any special treatment? Thank you!
Sussex coast

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  • YessicaHaircutYessicaHaircut Posts: 164

    Sussex coast
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    All Brunnera have blue flowers. This one could be a seed from a plant so not a named variety. Now would be a good time to move it to its permanent position. No special treatment. Thrives in a partially shaded, or fully shaded location, with moist, well drained soils.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Looks like Brunnera Jack Frost.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    It does look like B Jack Frost but can you technically call it that if it is a seedling?
    I used to grow but it but leaves on seedlings did vary and were not as good as the parent plant.
    Any future seedlings from these plants could be poor.

    I think this could apply to other plants,  some are better forms than others. I have a lovely Polystichum setiferum which I have grown for many years. I have lifted and split it as I wanted more of it. I have looked for it over the years but never found one as good.
     A good planting companion for the Brunnera. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It is a Brunnera but I don't think it is Jack Frost, too much white. I have one like that but I can't remember its name. I have several Jack Frosts too, really good for shady spots and do OK in dry soil too. Mine seed themselves, but I don't replant the green ones, only the variegated ones. I do it in spring or autumn.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • YessicaHaircutYessicaHaircut Posts: 164
    Thanks, everyone. I was planning on buying a Jack Frost so I'm considering this a win. Jack Frostish will do for me. :)

    Is it likely to bloom next year?
    Sussex coast
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I have a white-flowered one called B. "Mister Morse" that has foliage similar to that, but I think it's unlikely to appear as a self-sown. More likely it will turn out to be blue.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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