I grew an echium from seed years ago that looked very much like No 3 - the bees loved it - really can't remember what it was called tho - all I know is that it was an echium
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Number 3 looks like a campanula of some sort. For is stachys sylvatica - multiplies like crazy - I cannot get rid of it from my garden and hate it. Had to take weedkiller to the perennial sweet pea in my garden and it is still coming up. It has no merits in my opinion!
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I think 3 is the Echium vulgare that's sold as an annual. I've never sorted it out in my mind because Echium vulgare is the native Viper's Bugloss which that is not.
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I think 1 is phacelia, 2 everlasting pea and 4 hedge woundwort.
Dont know 3 but I like it
PS - welcome to the forum
Aw thanks so much Victoria! And for the warm welcome too.
I suspected that 2 was some kind of sweet pea relative. Everlasting you say? Going to google it now.
Thought 3 could maybe have been some kind of echium? Vipers bugloss looks quite similar but the leaves appear different
I grew an echium from seed years ago that looked very much like No 3 - the bees loved it - really can't remember what it was called tho - all I know is that it was an echium
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Number 3 looks like a campanula of some sort. For is stachys sylvatica - multiplies like crazy - I cannot get rid of it from my garden and hate it. Had to take weedkiller to the perennial sweet pea in my garden and it is still coming up. It has no merits in my opinion!
No 1 Phacelia tanacetifolium. Bees love it. It can be used as green manure.
2 Perennial sweet pea , probably has no scent.
I think 3 is the Echium vulgare that's sold as an annual. I've never sorted it out in my mind because Echium vulgare is the native Viper's Bugloss which that is not.
Can someone explain?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I wonder if it is a closely related echium to Viper's bugloss. Perhaps E. plantagineum (Plantain viper's bugloss) or the cultivar 'Blue bedder'?
Any ideas on these weird looking "bulblets"? Photo taken in Marlborough
I agree with Annette, and they're probably Cyclamen hederafolium - my shady bank is covered with them at this time of year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.