So I've finally got a flower, and verbena seems to fit in looks to the flower, I just don't know where it's come from because we certainly didn't grow any!
well there you go, that's definitely it, but where the hell has it come from? I've two very well formed healthy plants, and they're very pretty and I don't want to get rid of them, are they worth keeping, and trying to keep the seeds for the wildflower garden I want to put in my allotment next year? Could it possibly have come from a bird? I've grown absolutely no wildflowers this year.
Definitely worth keeping. Very pretty and very useful. Often they arrive in the compost of other plants and take a year or so to germinate. Normally grown in the garden situation as a green manure, sown March to Sept. and dug in after about 3 months, but also a fantastic bee attractant if sown early enough to flower in summer.
Wow! I feel very lucky! I've researched into them quickly and I love the fact they are bee attractors as I feel very strongly about helping the bees as much as I can in a small suburban garden. Would they be suitable to plant into any type of soil as I feel they are wasted in small pots, as they are very tall.
As mine are already slowly but surely starting to flower, hopefully they'll attract some bees. I love the light colour of the petals and the blue whiskery stamens!
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So I've finally got a flower, and verbena seems to fit in looks to the flower, I just don't know where it's come from because we certainly didn't grow any!
It's phacelia tanacetifolia, often grown as a cropside extra to attract pollinating insects.
well there you go, that's definitely it, but where the hell has it come from? I've two very well formed healthy plants, and they're very pretty and I don't want to get rid of them, are they worth keeping, and trying to keep the seeds for the wildflower garden I want to put in my allotment next year? Could it possibly have come from a bird? I've grown absolutely no wildflowers this year.
thank you for finally IDing this mystery though!
Definitely worth keeping. Very pretty and very useful. Often they arrive in the compost of other plants and take a year or so to germinate. Normally grown in the garden situation as a green manure, sown March to Sept. and dug in after about 3 months, but also a fantastic bee attractant if sown early enough to flower in summer.
I was going to say - looks a bit like feverfew foliage to me- and since Hortum's IDd it as a tanacetifolia that ties in. Feverfew is tanacetum.
It will have seeded in from somewhere SP
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wow! I feel very lucky! I've researched into them quickly and I love the fact they are bee attractors as I feel very strongly about helping the bees as much as I can in a small suburban garden. Would they be suitable to plant into any type of soil as I feel they are wasted in small pots, as they are very tall.
As mine are already slowly but surely starting to flower, hopefully they'll attract some bees. I love the light colour of the petals and the blue whiskery stamens!