Flower identification

Janxx

I wonder if someone can tell me what this little beauty is. It is nestling amongst weeds and grass. 

goldfinches

Snapdragon? On bottom left, not sure about bottom right.

LessImpecunious

Agreed! and bottom right also, just not open properly yet. BTW, there's a young foxglove extreme left, will flower next year...

skycatcher

there's an app called obsidentify - you just take a photo of what it is you want to identify and it tells you what it thinks it is with a degree of probability.

Janxx

LessImpecunious said:

Agreed! and bottom right also, just not open properly yet. BTW, there's a young foxglove extreme left, will flower next year...

Thank you. I spotted the foxglove. There are a few more young ones scattered about and 3 fully grown flowering. This is what prompted me to start clearing weeds and grass from this little patch in my garden. It is like a little cottage garden and I love it. 

LessImpecunious

Janxx said:

LessImpecunious said:

Agreed! and bottom right also, just not open properly yet. BTW, there's a young foxglove extreme left, will flower next year...

Thank you. I spotted the foxglove. There are a few more young ones scattered about and 3 fully grown flowering. This is what prompted me to start clearing weeds and grass from this little patch in my garden. It is like a little cottage garden and I love it. 

That sounds great! never sure when people use the term "weeds" whether anything not deliberately planted by them is viewed as such and rigorously eliminated! Hopefully the snapdragons will self seed in the patch as well...

Alnat1

Trying to decide if that's a Welsh poppy very far right, or it could be ground elder.....

Brie

I was told the definition of a weed is a plant growing in the wrong place.  So if you want a rough lawn then dandelions aren't weeds.  If you want a putting green a dandelion is a weed.

twopenny

Makes you wonder why we spend so much time and money.
Aren't banks of dandelions just beautiful? And the insects just love them.
The hedgerows round exmoor have been just stunning in May with wild plants no one grows.

MalMonroe

Yep, it's definitely Antirrhinum majus.

Definition :  Definition from my old wildflowers of Britain book - "Commonly known as snapdragons, these are easy-to-grow, old-fashioned cottage garden plants, beloved by children and bees."

[Always 'wildflowers', never 'weeds'!]