Hi,
I am a bit wary of putting this unidentified post into the wild flowers forum as I don't know if it is a cultivar or non-native plant. So I looked for a more general forum and thought this one was best suited to my post.
The plant below grew last year, a fairly stunted low growth and never did anything, no flowers, I thought it might have been a stray cucumber or courgette seed from the compost bin.
It has "rough as sandpaper" leaves. And this year it has grown back really strongly and upright and is now 2 feet tall with multiple stems. Can't wait to see if it flowers. Can you identify it please?
A close up of the growing tip
The following is a picture of my Cirsium Rivulare Atropurpureum, which I am recommending to anyone who likes flowers for the bees and butterflies. I'd like to know if it is a native wild flower or is it a cultivar? Planted last summer as a 1 litre plant pot single stem specimen (it grew a couple more stems even in the first season) and look at the size of it this year! I like so much that I am going to grow seedlings from the seeds and create a whole bed of the stuff.
