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Unidentified seedlings

gnoshgnosh Posts: 22
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Hi I acquired the seeds direct from seed pods on a tall plant after flowering . 
In a friends stately garden but she didn’t know what it was either other than it would have been planted at some stage. 
The closest I can get to an identification is pale bugloss ? They are still babies and the leaves are slightly hairy . 
Some advice would be fab in case I’m nurturing a pile of weeds ( although pale bugloss is technically a weed , it’s still echium family so I don’t want to 
give up so early ) ? Thoughts please ?? 
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Not a definite ID but my first impression was Corn Cockle. I'm not familiar with Pale Bugloss but these don't look like any of the Echiums I do know


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Cornflower?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • gnoshgnosh Posts: 22
    I don’t know honestly ? It was with giant dahlia and chocolate cosmos so I assumed it would be a flowering plant not there by accident as the gardens are tended to ? Don’t mind cornflowers of course but the parent had  a flower spike about 1 metre in height 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I grow Catananche caerulea and the seedlings are very similar

    Billericay - Essex

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  • gnoshgnosh Posts: 22
    Thank you , I’ve just looked them up and yes , very similar and can grow quite tall , it just looked like a flower spike when I picked the seed pods but it was summer last year and I was a bit like a kid in a sweetie shop with my seed packets so I could have been mistaken 😂
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Enjoy the mystery and keep us posted
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    They look nice and healthy, so just let them do their stuff and see what you get. 😁
  • gnoshgnosh Posts: 22
    Will do :) growing stuff from seed is always exciting even more so if you don’t know what it is 😂 I do have a plant identification app which gave me the leaf of pale blugloss over and over again ‘echium italicum ‘ . I have echium pininana in the same greenhouse also from seed but totally different . Will let you know what I get in summer 😳
    both below pale bugloss , from world flora  by my usual echium 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Personally I would rather pot here for an ID than rely on an app.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • gnoshgnosh Posts: 22
    Absolutely!  :)
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