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Amother very pretty wildflower for identification.
A couple more of the wildflowers I planted from mixed seed have emerged. This lovely coloured small flower is very distinctive, with purple veins running through the petals and a purple spot at the edge of each leaf.
It's branching with pinnately lobed leaves. The flower is bell shaped and a very pale blue and white colour, as best seen in the third pic'. Any ideas?
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That might be Lavatera......I might be wrong though
Mine are just starting to flower and look like that but a different colour. The leaves look a bit different though?
Hi orchidlady, I don't think it's lavatera as the flower is only about 2-3cm in diameter. I love lavatera and have grown them before. This small flower has four long stamens. as in the second pic'.
It reminds me a little of convulvulus tricolour in shape and size, but not in the colour patterns.
Ok, I did wonder after I'd posted as the leaves looked different but had a google and there were some varieties that look like yours.....but only leaf shape, I didn't check the flower shape.
Someone will be along soon who knows what it is
Nemophila maculata 5 spot baby
soulboy I think this is a wildlife (insect attracting) mix rather than a wild flower mix.
Insects love nemophila.
In the sticks near Peterborough
1. My fault orchidlady, I should have put the flower size in the OP.
2. Thanks fidgetbones! I should have known this as I've had 'baby blue eyes' in my garden since I started it 4 years ago. I also had a nemophila variant one year that originated in China (can't remember the name at the moment).
3. Hi nutcutlet, All the flowers I've recently requested ID for recently have come from the same box, which is labelled as 'Wild Flowers Mix', bought from Lidl. But as I mentioned in another post, it gives a long list of the plant types included, and there are obvious garden plants in the mix such as calendula, clarkia et al, as well as insect attracting plants such as purple tansy, Aquilegia, and nasturtiums et al.
I have other boxes of seeds that are specifically insect attracting mixes. But they all seem to be very similar in their contents. This box from Lidl is the first one I've had where the supplier has bothered to list some of the plant types.
They'll be wild flowers somewhere. But not all in the UK
You've got some nice ones there
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks nutcutlet. I just spent most of the morning listing all the plants on that box in my seed diary. It's about two thirds native plants and the rest non-native, but I would hardly consider a lot of them to be wildflowers or insect attracting, though some are.
That's not to say that there aren't some fine flowering plants in there. There are some of my favourites, such as Tithonia, Mexican sunflower. And there are, as usual, seeds in the box that aren't listed, such as the dwarf viper's bugloss we discussed in another thread.
Almost all of them are still growing and yet to flower as they're in a semi-shaded spot behind a hedge in a west-facing garden. Here's a couple of beautiful examples of some cornflowers that have flowered. I'm so pleased with these because I've got lots of blue and pink as I have every year. The maroon/purple one is almost black from a distance.
You can see them to the middle left and bottom right of the first picture.
And corncockle, very nice.
I like that red/pink cornflower
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes the corncockle is another I like, too. Always have some every year. The red cornflower is a bit special. isn't it? There's always a lot of variety and many surprises in my garden every year because I plant a lot of mixed, and collected seed, rather than perennials or bedding plants.