Is this comfrey?

**veggiechicken** · 22-06-2013, 06:30 AM

Looks like comfrey leaves. Are those white flowers or seed heads? I can't tell from the photo! There is a white flowered comfrey that I have - the bees love it!

**shepp726** · 22-06-2013, 06:30 AM

i'd say yes hen.

**Hennan13** · 22-06-2013, 03:05 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Looks like comfrey leaves. Are those white flowers or seed heads? I can't tell from the photo! There is a white flowered comfrey that I have - the bees love it!

Yep they are white flowers that have mostly died off

**Hennan13** · 22-06-2013, 03:07 PM

Originally posted by shepp726 View Post

i'd say yes hen.

Thank you, thought it might be

**veggiechicken** · 22-06-2013, 04:01 PM

Here's a link http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post977692
to another thread and a photo I took last year

**Hennan13** · 22-06-2013, 07:01 PM

Thanks, very useful, fairly sure it is comfrey now.

**Two_Sheds** · 22-06-2013, 08:14 PM

It's officinalis, isn't it?

You want to cut the flowers off really, so that it doesn't seed itself everywhere. Where it does manage to seed itself, it'll be a devil of a job to dig out if you let it get established.

Bocking 14 is the variety usually recommended ~ because it's sterile, it doesn't spread itself all over the place

**hellybore** · 22-06-2013, 09:32 PM

I would say keep it - comfrey is such a useful plant. And if it does self-seed, the babies are easy to identify and easy to pull up

**mothhawk** · 23-06-2013, 07:02 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Here's a link http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post977692
to another thread and a photo I took last year

I'm still not 100% sure about what I've got. It has flowered this year, but not a tall stem like purple comfrey and you photo VC. The whole plant has spread, but is less than a foot high overall, and I know common comfrey grows 2 - 3 feet high.

**mothhawk** · 24-06-2013, 06:16 PM

Finally - I've found what i have, it is comfrey, ground cover comfrey, (symphytum grandiflorum)

Ground Cover Comfrey (Symphytum grandiflorum) .

**veggiechicken** · 24-06-2013, 06:44 PM

Looks interesting MH! Well spotted

British Wild Plant: Symphytum grandiflorum Creeping Comfrey

**mothhawk** · 24-06-2013, 06:54 PM

It spreads fast. The little piece of rooted stem I liberated from the hedge last spring is now a two foot square patch. Time for a firm haircut and compost heap top up, methinks!

**mothhawk** · 24-06-2013, 06:58 PM

That's a great website VC, thanks for the link. I've been searching for a really good wildflower ID site with good images.

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