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Name this flower!

Louise BLouise B Posts: 81
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Supposedly an annual but it keeps coming back year after year (according to inlaws) and garden centre said bacon and egg plant but Google disagrees. In full bloom now and swarmed with bees.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Poached Egg Plant - Limnanthes douglasii

    The garden centre had the wrong breakfast menu!!! image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • arneilarneil Posts: 313

    I googled poached egg plant and it looks very like your plant

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I must google bacon and egg plantimage

    Poached egg sounds much healthier



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I googled bacon and egg plant and got pictures of 3 different plants, Birds foot trefoil, tufted vetch and one i didn't recognize (another legume)

    Stick with the poached eggimage

    or you could have bacon and eggplant caserole



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172

    I am growing this it is the poached egg plant getting there with mine just waiting for it to flower

    Hampshire Gardener
  • Louise BLouise B Posts: 81

    Great, thanks everyone image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roast+beef+plant

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • maureen60maureen60 Posts: 193

    Hi Poached egg plan freely sets seed, and bees love it.

    It is now all over my garden, even soiless areas, hard paving etc.

  • Louise BLouise B Posts: 81
    The yellow doesn't really go with my scheme but there is one that is called rosea and is white with pink veins. Would you suppose that one would be equally attractive to bees? xx
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I don't think the lack of yellow would worry the bees. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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