Please can someone help to identify this flower for me??
It has flowered for weeks and tolerates hot dry conditions, it is rough to
the touch.
Thanks.

http://tinypic.com/r/286yb15/3

On Aug 6, 10:55*pm, "JonC" wrote:
Please can someone help to identify this flower for me??
It has flowered for weeks and tolerates hot dry conditions, it is rough to
the touch.
Thanks.

http://tinypic.com/r/286yb15/3

Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss)?

Des

In message
, Des
Higgins writes
On Aug 6, 10:55*pm, "JonC" wrote:
Please can someone help to identify this flower for me??
It has flowered for weeks and tolerates hot dry conditions, it is rough to
the touch.
Thanks.

http://tinypic.com/r/286yb15/3

Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss)?

Des

Yes. In my limited experience, wild plants tend to be more straggly, and
less branched, so I'd guess that this is cultivated stock.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

The wild plants also tend to have more pinkish/purplish bits on the blue. They've been introduced to New Zealand and become an invasive weed there, especially in the drier mountains east of the main Alps range on the south island. Cycling through those mountains, I soon became very familiar with it.

On Aug 7, 8:56*am, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:
In message
, Des
Higgins writes

On Aug 6, 10:55*pm, "JonC" wrote:
Please can someone help to identify this flower for me??
It has flowered for weeks and tolerates hot dry conditions, it is rough to
the touch.
Thanks.

http://tinypic.com/r/286yb15/3

Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss)?

Des

Yes. In my limited experience, wild plants tend to be more straggly, and
less branched, so I'd guess that this is cultivated stock.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

I have only seen it in the wild once in Ireland (I cannot remember if
it is native; probably isn't but gets naturalised?) and it is quite a
sight. The wild ones were indeed more straggly and were spread
through a meadow. The splashes of deep blue were very striking.

"Des Higgins" wrote in message
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On Aug 7, 8:56 am, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:
In message
, Des
Higgins writes

On Aug 6, 10:55 pm, "JonC" wrote:
Please can someone help to identify this flower for me??
It has flowered for weeks and tolerates hot dry conditions, it is rough
to
the touch.
Thanks.

http://tinypic.com/r/286yb15/3

Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss)?

Des

Yes. In my limited experience, wild plants tend to be more straggly, and
less branched, so I'd guess that this is cultivated stock.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

I have only seen it in the wild once in Ireland (I cannot remember if
it is native; probably isn't but gets naturalised?) and it is quite a
sight. The wild ones were indeed more straggly and were spread
through a meadow. The splashes of deep blue were very striking.



Thankyou to all those who replied.
I think I will tread carefully when I collect the seed and sow it, but I do
like it as a flower.