Thank you so much everyone. Plant number 2 will be moved next spring when it starts to peep though, hopefully that way it will actually flower, I'd love to see it in flower, I did suspect that it wasn't a grass but flowers do tend to help with ID!
Plant No. 2, it did always look bluebell shaped but I'm so ignorant I didn't realise there was more than one variety so dismissed it!
Thanks again everyone you've been, as always, very helpful.
Mountain Bluebells are an American native plant in the borage family - that's why there's a resemblance - but I don't think Heather's plants are exactly that plant - much more likely to be, as I said, either the white form of Borago officionalis - a mediterranean plant which is naturalised in the UK, or the white form of the UK native comfrey (symphytum officinale ) Both grow all over the place and can be invasive.
Hi Ryan
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Punk you are right - it is comfrey. It looks like the pinky one or the white/ pale yellow one. Both loved by bees, especially bumbles.
The white / pale yellow version is low growing and spreads rapidly! I often harvest the leaves for my compost heap but it doesn't seem to do any long term damage! A friend called it symphytum alba.
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Thank you so much everyone. Plant number 2 will be moved next spring when it starts to peep though, hopefully that way it will actually flower, I'd love to see it in flower, I did suspect that it wasn't a grass but flowers do tend to help with ID!
Plant No. 2, it did always look bluebell shaped but I'm so ignorant I didn't realise there was more than one variety so dismissed it!
Thanks again everyone you've been, as always, very helpful.
Are you sure number 1 are the mountain bluebells? They look suspiciously like symphytum ibericum? It's in the Comfrey genus and can be invasive.
Plant 1., is a Symphytum officinale, which i think is Comfrey.
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Eek just looked at those, it says they spread 100cm. Does look like them
Which one Lily?
No 1 looks like comfrey to me
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mountain Bluebells are an American native plant in the borage family - that's why there's a resemblance - but I don't think Heather's plants are exactly that plant - much more likely to be, as I said, either the white form of Borago officionalis - a mediterranean plant which is naturalised in the UK, or the white form of the UK native comfrey (symphytum officinale ) Both grow all over the place and can be invasive.
Hi Ryan
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm thinking of garlic chives - leaves look wrong for bluebells to me.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Punk you are right - it is comfrey. It looks like the pinky one or the white/ pale yellow one. Both loved by bees, especially bumbles.
The white / pale yellow version is low growing and spreads rapidly! I often harvest the leaves for my compost heap but it doesn't seem to do any long term damage! A friend called it symphytum alba.
Have a look at Symphytum 'Hidcote Blue', it's a hybrid and looks like the OP's pics.