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MarianneChristineMarianneChristine Posts: 17
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Another case of, I've collected the seed of this plant but forgot to label it! Could anyone please identify this blue flower from this image. Many thanks.image

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  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 1,994

    Ceratostigma plumbaginoides.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,773

    It looks like Ceratostigma willmottianum aka Chinese plumbago to me image

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,991

    I can't see the over-all shape of the plant but the taller stems on the top left suggest C. willmottianum to me



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,773

    That's what I though Nut - looks exactly like the one in my border image

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,991

    image Yes Dove, plumbaginoides has a 'softer' look (and feel) to the leaves



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • MarianneChristineMarianneChristine Posts: 17

    This might be a better image of it. It must have come from one of those mixed packets of seeds, Thompson and Morgan - else via the free seed from birds!

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,991

    Ceratostigma willmottianum



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,773

    A lovely thing. I bought mine from the 'nearly dead' section at the GC, and it still cost me more than a fiver a couple of years ago. 

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  • MarianneChristineMarianneChristine Posts: 17

    Wow, glad I have collected the seeds then!

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