Do you recognise this flower in our wildflower patch?

Misslayed

LessImpecunious said:

Could you take a close-up photo of the flower in question @Misslayed ? It all goes fuzzy when I try to zoom in on the image...

I'll send my in house photographer down when he's off the golf course! I'm a bit crook at mo. 

Misslayed

@LessImpecunious

twopenny

Nope, I've got the Oxford book of wildflowers which has never failed me but this time it has 
Picture matchimg on google is a thought.

-taff

Purple tansy, which coincedentally, I sowed the week before last...

Misslayed

-taff said:

Purple tansy, which coincedentally, I sowed the week before last...

That sounds like it, thank you 👩🏼‍🌾

Paspatur

I'm thinking blue thimble flower. Purple tansy looks hairier to me but that might be my poor eyesight

LessImpecunious

Don't recognise it, sorry - it looks more like the Gilia than Phacelia to me ( seems to lack the curved flower head, and has fairly short stamens); but neither are British natives, prob why it's not in the Oxford book of wildflowers 2P... Where's @Dustyevsky when you need him?!...

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

 Where's @Dustyevsky when you need him?!...

Recovering from a bout of extreme exercise brought about by the many deficiencies of our public footpath signage, but he's been here and he doesn't know the plant, only what it's not.

droopsnoot

I have similar identification issues as I didn't plant anything, I've just had to take over looking after it all and trying not to let it get too overgrown. I recently downloaded the "Seek" app which has been quite good at identifying the various random things in the garden here, and it's free. It does sometimes struggle to figure out exactly what something is, though, it's not perfect. It doesn't identify the plant from the photo, but then it likes to see it from different angles. It did say "Gilias", but wouldn't go any more specific than that.