Anyone know what this plant is?
HI Can anyone please id this plant. It along with 4 others have grown in my garden since I had a bird table in there last winter. It is a very strong plant, with hairs on its stem and prickles under its leaves, it is just about to flower, and has masses of buds waiting to burst open. It is really bugging me, as I can find nothing that resembles it. It could be a weed I suppose. Hoping someone can enlighten me Many thanks
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Hi Azshara. Have you got a photo or more of a description of the flower?
Are you posting through you phone, as I've never been able to upload a photo if it's on the "Mobile" version of the site.
When I first opened the post, there was the bar above it with the attachment icon, but when I signed in and went back to my post, that bar as disappeared.
So I cannot attach a photo to this post now.
You could try closing down your browser and then opening it up again - this simply solution often sorts out gremlins.
But anyway I have found out what the plant is....it is Borage.(Starflower).
You see lots of fields covered with blue flowers around here, so I asked a farmer.
Get someone to check it out .I read a story in a magazine one time about a lady who had a gigantic plant grow from seed that had fallen from a bird feeder,she had come up in a rash after being near it , it turned out to be a very piosonous species from the tropics.be on the safe side and get your findings confirmed
Or then there was the very handsome plant that grew under the bird feeder in our Social Services offices n(ot open to the public I might add) - no one seemed to recognise it growing there, so I left it, waiting for it to be spotted - it got to about 3ft tall and probably worth a great deal 'on the street' before the groundsmen came and strimmed it down - maybe more social services staff should've gone to art school like what I did
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.