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Plant ID's, please
Hi, I'm hoping I can get some ID's for these small, pretty flowering plants.
The first is growing in the back garden in a new plot where I sowed some mixed seeds earlier this year. It has blue flowers growing in globe-like clusters.
The flowers are very tiny and you can see the leaf shape and arrangement in the first two pictures. I've done a blow up to show the flower detail.
The second one is in the stones of the front garden. I don't know where this has come from, whether it's been dropped by a bird, blown on the wind, or from a packet of my seeds.
It has tiny blue flowers with five petals and long lanceolate leaves. It's a very small plant.
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I think the top one is Didiscus caerulea blue lace flower
Bottom one Sisyrinchium angustifolium. Blue eyed grass
Sorry, but Sisyrinchium have 6 petals this only has 5. Bugging me as I know what the second one is, but the name is not popping into the old brain.
One of the Pratias?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks for your answers so far. Nut, sadly it's not one of the pratias, though I can see why you suggested it. The flower is very similar, but the leaves on mine are wrong for that plant, as far as I can see from looking them up. Pratias have small ovoid leaves compared to the lanceolate ones on my plant.
Berghill, I hope you remember what the plants is!
Fidgetbones, I looked up both your suggestions and the second one is definitely not right and while the first is very similar I'm still not certain it's a match. While the leaves are very similar the flowers are different, especially if you look at the blow up of my flowers. I'm going to do some more research.
In the meantime more suggestions are very welcome to point me in the right direction.
Sorry, nothing as yet. Have a look at the annual Phlox.