Topic: Plant id please

[pye]

What's this please? I looked it up on the RHS site and I think it's brunnera macrophylla, but the under-gardener disagrees ::). We're both a bit rubbish with flowering plants.

It's about two foot tall, self seeds everywhere, leaves and stems covered in itchy silver hairs.

TIA

[cardinalflower]

I have in my garden too, any ideas anyone, would love to know what it's called!

[valmarg]

I think it could be Omphalodes cappadocica, common name Navelwort  Looks rather like a perennial forget-me-not.

valmarg

[Pesky Wabbit]

Not sure what it is, but it aint Myosotis sylvatica (Forget-Me-Not) , they have leaves which are round ended, not pointy as in the photo, and it aint Brunnera macrophylla, it has much larger leaves

[laurieuk]

It is Brunnera Macrophylla ( perenial foget me not) almost certainly, the size of leave can vary according to soil.

What's this please? I looked it up on the RHS site and I think it's brunnera macrophylla, but the under-gardener disagrees ::). We're both a bit rubbish with flowering plants.

It's about two foot tall, self seeds everywhere, leaves and stems covered in itchy silver hairs.

TIA

[SueSteve]

Its an Alkanet

[Palustris]

Definitely Pentaglottis sempervirens, aka Alkanet. A seed weed of the first order.

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's all over my plot.

[laurieuk]

Alkanet is another name for Anchusa, both are well illustrated together with Brunnera in Hessayon's book The Flower Expert.

[pye]

Curses, so the under gardener was right.

Thanks everyone.

[laurieuk]

If you check the pictures you are right it is Brunnera.

Curses, so the under gardener was right.

Thanks everyone.

[pg]

Thanks for identifying this - I was about to post exactly the same question!

Does this plant have any uses for the gardener? Its leaves look similar to comfrey - do you think these would also act as a 'fertiliser'?

[RobinOfTheHood]

Green Alkanet!

I was going to ask exactly the same question last week but googled it instead...it's native to the continent but naturalized here.

I thought it was Borage, it is from the same family. Apparently.

[Andy H]

I have the same and I thought it was comfrey as identified earlier in the year on A4A. I have been putting in my comfrey tube anyway.

I think most things are ok as fertilizer.
Just a liquid form of compost heap without the seeds.

(I think) ???

[Amazin]

It's from the same family as borage and comfrey - wonder if it's got the same bee-attracting features as borage, or the nutrient supplying qualities of comfrey? Haven't found anything on the web as yet. Any ideas anyone?

 ???

[saddad]

Rare around here... unlike borage and comfrey... but there is a bank down by the canal!
 ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've never noticed bees on it much.