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An ID for this blue flower would be great, please. Single stem, bright blue, with three bell-shaped blooms clustered together. I think the birds must have brought it!




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One of the Aconitums?

1 Nov, 2015

 

Agree Owdb one of the Aconitums...

1 Nov, 2015

 

Aconitum napellus, Monks-hood aconite.

1 Nov, 2015

 

Thank you! I feel lucky to have this 'surprise' . . . just hope it's a perennial, and might spread???

1 Nov, 2015

 

Perennial and it spreads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dead heading is needed.

1 Nov, 2015

 

Hi Sheilabub, you're in luck, it's a fully hardy, herbacous perennial, it's best grown in cool, moist, fertile soil, in partial shade, but will tolerate most soils and full sun, should be divided every 3 years in autumn or late winter, to keep it vigorous, Derek.

1 Nov, 2015

 

Wow - thank you to all you knowledgeable people. Amazingly it has landed in 'cool, moist soil, in partial shade' so it knows what it likes. As I just have the one plant, I shall treasure it!

1 Nov, 2015

 

Sheila - just be aware that it is poisonous.

1 Nov, 2015

 

Uh oh - thanks for the warning, Andrew.

3 Nov, 2015

 

Mind you so are a lot of plants in our gardens

3 Nov, 2015

 

Hi Sheilabub, not only is it poisonous if eaten, you can b poisoned by touching it without gloves, it is about the most poisonous plants it is possible to have in your garden, and is usually fatal, unless you can get hospital treatment within 1 hour, so just be EXTREMELY careful with it, Derek.

3 Nov, 2015

 

Hmm - I planted one yesterday without wearing gloves. Am I dead?

3 Nov, 2015

 

Well - it's always safer to be aware - thanks!!

4 Nov, 2015

 

I have no problem with them. Obviously I have not tried to eat one though.

4 Nov, 2015

 

Seems the toxins can be absorbed through a cut or similar but no real evidence.

4 Nov, 2015

 

I have spent the last few days cutting these things down and I rarely wear gloves, am I dead too?

4 Nov, 2015

 

Hope you're still with us, Owd . . . :))

7 Nov, 2015

 

Owd - if you and I are both dead, how come we didn't finish up in the same place? One of us must be in hell! :-)

7 Nov, 2015

How do I say thanks?

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