Can anyone identify this plant / weed?

Hi,

Does anyone know what this is? It spreads quite aggressively during the summer months, I seem to be forever pulling them up!!
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Thanks

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Hi there dampsquib and welcome to GC.

It is a Nigella, common name, Love-in-a-Mist and it self-seeds very easily. It is an annual, so if you are finding it a nuisance just dead head it before it seeds and it won't come back next year.

 

Thanks for the super fast reply!

I'm assuming it's not normally seen as a weed. I'll probably just thin it out a bit to stop it spreading too far - I think I've let it have too much of a free run in the past.

Cheers
D

 

It's a wildflower here and I just love them ... they grow outside my gates on the lane. They used to grow wild in my garden till we gravelled and made a sand garden for specimen plants.. I would love it if they found their way back ...

 

Hi Victora, maybe dampsquib could send you some seeds :D

They just seem to fizzle out in my garden, maybe it's the heavy clay.

 

Hi Blackthorn

We are heavy red clay here ...

Mentioning seeds, I'll send you some of the Madeira cherry tomato seeds.

 

Wow, well remembered Victora, you are wonderful. How are they doing by the way?

 

:D ... I'm eating them ... I have six trusses and more on the way ... :yho: