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
I have in my garden too, any ideas anyone, would love to know what it's called!
I think it could be Omphalodes cappadocica, common name Navelwort Looks rather like a perennial forget-me-not.
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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
It is Brunnera Macrophylla ( perenial foget me not) almost certainly, the size of leave can vary according to soil.
Quote from: pye on May 13, 2007, 20:57:42
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
Its an Alkanet
Definitely Pentaglottis sempervirens, aka Alkanet. A seed weed of the first order.
It's all over my plot.
Alkanet is another name for Anchusa, both are well illustrated together with Brunnera in Hessayon's book The Flower Expert.
Curses, so the under gardener was right.
Thanks everyone.
If you check the pictures you are right it is Brunnera.
Quote from: pye on May 16, 2007, 20:39:49
Curses, so the under gardener was right.
Thanks everyone.
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'?
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.
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) ???
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?
???
Rare around here... unlike borage and comfrey... but there is a bank down by the canal!
;D
I've never noticed bees on it much.