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What plant is this?
Daniel Rutherford
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Daniel Rutherford
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Daniel Rutherford
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the leaves I can see clearly resemble an echium but it's a bit blurred and makes my eyes go funny
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks and yeah the picture isnt great
Yes, it looks like an echium to me too - the dead leaves under the plant are very distinctive. Echiums flower in the summer and attract bees and butterflies. The plants reseed over the winter - a biennial here, but apparently can have a three year cycle in parts of the U.K.
thankyou i have been trying to find out what I was for a while. It grew from seed In my greenhouse but I certainly didn't plant it haha .
I'm going with echium too. I'd say that one might not flower until next year. 3 year cycle here in Devon.
I'm no expert on these , or any other matters, but my guess is it's a 2 year old plant and the dead leaves are from year one.
I would put them out in the garden, they don't like being messed about with, so I wouldn't pot them up.
they may flower this year, judging by the amount of dead leaves they must be a year old already. when did they first appear?
it appeared about 2 years ago