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What's this tiny little flower ?

Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91

imageAny idea  what this tiny plant  is called , it's growing in a walled garden between the old bricks of the walls? I managed to dig this out but it didn't have much of a root so I hope it survives.  It's very pretty. 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Ivy leaved toadflax ...... a pretty little thing happiest growing in the cracks of walls.  

    http://www.first-nature.com/flowers/cymbalaria-muralis.php 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91

    Thanks so much Dove ?

    It's a sweet little plant , if these tiny plants take root do you think they would grow and spread in the soil or are they just for brick walls? 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530

    It will grow anywhere but where you want it to.  I used to have a patio garden covered with shingle, and ivy-leaved toadflax loved it and spread throughout the shingle. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Yes, I agree Josusa - not a plant for beds or pots - happiest in nooks and crannies image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91

    Well I have a patio garden covered with smallish stones so maybe I'll be lucky and it will spread, that's if these little plants take. Thanks 

  • Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91

    Oh dear, maybe I should have left it to grow in the wall after all ?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    It will seed about the place. I often find it in pots or cracks or corners.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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