By Titchy
Dorset,
United Kingdom 
I think this is a wild meadow flower use to pick them in the fields myself as a child, somehow it got into one of my empty pots, probably by birds, what is the name of it please?
24 May, 2011
Answers
Agreed - the hedgerows in Cornwall are full of it at the moment - they look glorious in May.
24 May, 2011
Thank you both, in fact I've just read a blog and the name was mentioned so I knew before I read your answers, but thanks all the same
24 May, 2011
i have it in my garden too it looks lovely. It is in one of the wilder areas.
25 May, 2011
Red campion - Silene dioica, to give it its Sunday name.
24 May, 2011