This wild flower is proving to be really garden worthy for me. It seeds prolifically but is never a nuisance as unwanted seedlings pull out very easily and the light, airy nature of its growth enables it to fill in spaces between other subjects without being to their detriment. This year it has performed wonderfully in the garden coming into flower in May and, after a lull in flowering, is again smothered in intensley blue flowers after the end of august rains. Unfortunately, due to the strange weather patterns we have experienced this year, it did not colonise the fields around us as it usually does after the harvest of the grain.(See previous posting) The grain was harvested early and as soon as the drought ended the fields were ploughed.
Perhaps we could start a topic on the use of "wild" flowers in the garden? - or do we already have one? Of course many of us do already make use of them perhaps without realising, lavender and thymes for example, the definition of "wild" being open to differing interpretations
. Forking Larkspur, Consolida regalis, is one I would certainly recommend. In the Blamey/Grey-Wilson "Mediterranean Flowers" it is described as flowering from May to July but as I have said it is still going strong in my, unwatered ,garden now.