Help identifying a plant

Errata

It looks like forget me not http://www.plants4less.co.uk/omphalodes-verna-creeping-forget-me-not-woodlander-90-p.asp?gclid=CMedhIa3zbcCFXLLtAodz3cAgA

Mojisola

Errata wrote: »

It looks like forget me not http://www.plants4less.co.uk/omphalodes-verna-creeping-forget-me-not-woodlander-90-p.asp?gclid=CMedhIa3zbcCFXLLtAodz3cAgA

I think that's too big as well - 20-30cms.

Errata

Mojisola wrote: »

I think that's too big as well - 20-30cms.

That's just a picture of a cultivated species, the bog standard common ones in gardens are about 4" tall. The shape of the leaves is the giveaway, I think.

pink.1970

I did suggest forget me not also but the leaves on first picture do not look right, although OP does say that is the main plant in flower bed and the other pic is of the plant in their lawn. If OP could post another pic of the leaves it would maybe help us.

Leif

gerby wrote: »

it is ALKANET GREEN we have it in our garden

The flowers also look like speedwell, but I think you are correct.

Davesnave

The first pic looks like alkanet to me, but if pic 2 shows the same plant, it's not alkanet. So, hard to be sure of scale in pic 1.

It's always a good idea to put something well known alongside things you want ID-ed so that people have an idea of scale. Anything will do, like a box of matches, or a teaspoon.

Looking alongside the plant in Pic 1 I can see what look like aquilegias, and if they are, then Pic 2 still makes no sense!

meercatsunited

the blue flowered one looks like comfrey plant, it grows big and wide and feels prickly on bare skin. if it is this it makes great fertilizer.

Queen_Latifah

http://www.about-garden.com/a/en/2306-brunnera-macrophylla-siberian-bugloss/

Valli

Mojisola wrote: »

Are they pictures of the same plant? Looks like Speedwell to me.

I'm not being deliberately obtuse but neither of them look like speedwell to me. Equally absolutley NOT aquilegia. I don't think it's forget-me-not either. These are three plants I CAN readily identify.;)

I don't know what it IS though...

:rotfl:

Davesnave

meercatsunited wrote: »

the blue flowered one looks like comfrey plant, it grows big and wide and feels prickly on bare skin. if it is this it makes great fertilizer.

Yes, comfrey is great, but the flowers on mine are bell shaped (several colours) and hang down.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1895