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What is this plant please??
Parkerwitton
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No guesses wonder what this plant is growing in my garden?
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It's a scabious
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Agree - more common name is scabiosa.
Well I thought that but it is so wee...do they grow as small as that? Obviously yes!! Any idea folks on the genus?
Looks like Scabiosa columbaria - aka Little Scabious, Dove's Pincushion, Pigeon Scabious etc. There are lots of different ones, just a few here http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/Flower-Seed/Scabious-Seeds/#.VW8ctEY_k0Y
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dovefromabove checked it out...looks like mine is a minature!!!
Definately scabiosa from the flower. Love full sun and normal soil
Butterflys love them
Or it could be S. graminifolia, very similar to S. columbiana.
Starved scabious can stay incredibly small and still bloom, it's a mystery to me!
I think there are cultivars that have been selected for shortness in relation to flower size.
In the sticks near Peterborough
That's for sure, but I know that my own seed-grown Scabiosa caucasica, which was kinda forgotten (ahem) in its small pot the year I sowed it, was like 5 cm high and blooming. The next year I planted it out and it became 50x50 cm (with many more flowers...) so they seem to be amazingly flexible, sizewise, a bit like dandelions. Weeds at heart
and size alone is not necessarily a definite clue to their identity.