Thank you Ladybird but having looked that up it's not right as it has foliage a bit like love in the mist. I'll try to get a better pic when it stops drizzling outside.
I was going off DyersEnd's description of the foliage looking like Love-in-a mist but to me those leaves look like Aquilegia. They are very pretty whatever they are.
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Sorry to leave you all to it, I've been hoovering up thunderbugs in the kitchen and sitting room Of course - larkspur but I didn't realise it came in white. I had a one last year (not white) and you guys identified it for me then. It's a poor little specimen as it's been buried under the marigolds. I'd have dozens of them if I could choose for them all to be white.
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It looks like one of the Sanguinaria family.
Thank you Ladybird but having looked that up it's not right as it has foliage a bit like love in the mist. I'll try to get a better pic when it stops drizzling outside.
Oh yes, that would really help to see foliage too.
Maybe a type of wild larkspur.
A pic of the leaves will help - when it stops drizzling
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larkspur a strong contender given the leaf description. Leaves are as important as flowers for ID.
One flower per stem for sanguinarias I think, though I haven't seen one lately
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If is leaves look like Love-in-a-mist could it not just be the white variant, Nigella damascena Miss Jekyll Alba?
Not a love in a mist flower, they have the dark bits in the middle, feathery leaves around, different arrangement of buds and flowers.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I was going off DyersEnd's description of the foliage looking like Love-in-a mist but to me those leaves look like Aquilegia. They are very pretty whatever they are.
Sorry to leave you all to it, I've been hoovering up thunderbugs in the kitchen and sitting room
Of course - larkspur but I didn't realise it came in white. I had a one last year (not white) and you guys identified it for me then. It's a poor little specimen as it's been buried under the marigolds. I'd have dozens of them if I could choose for them all to be white.
Many thanks
You can get some lovely white ones from seed here -
https://www.sarahraven.com/flowers/seeds/annuals/consolida_white.htm
I'm quite tempted myself - they look luvly
Billericay - Essex
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