Calling all gardeners………………. does anyone know what this is please? We didn’t have it in the patch last year, and I can’t find it in my book. Our neighbour took an picture and she can’t find it either. Hollyhock is coming to mind, but I have no idea.
The stem is fuzzy and spiky, not thorny, the leaves long and tapered, and the flowers are huge trumpets. It’s quite lovely, and has simply just turned up!
Meanwhile our roses are doing famously:
In the picture on the right, you can see three more buds on our In Loving Memory bush.
This is a cropped picture of the bloom
Not to be outdone, the Ancient Mariner is having a third and fourth show
Wonderful!
pensitivity101 
white Campanella or Canterbury bells. You lucky girl. Those are “antique” flowers and darned difficult to find. Bees LOVE them.
We love bees, so come along chaps……….we have some runner beans flowers for you too!
Looks like canterbury bells. You can google and compare to the actual plant.
Thanks Kate. This seems to be the most popular suggestion, and it would appear they are quite rare. Lucky us!!
They aren’t rare over here but they don’t just pop up either. They are very beautiful and come in wonderful colors. You are lucky. Free is always good.
Maybe the birds ‘dropped’ it in! It is lovely though.
I have seen flowers like the white one, but I’m terrible with their names. If none of your readers can help send me a note. I have a couple friends I could ask, who work in greenhouses.
Thanks Kathy. So far I have had delphinium and Canterbury Bells so I can do some checking.
I thought a kind of Lilly at first but I think it’s a Delphinium…?
Thanks Samantha. I will compare professional pictures with the other suggestions.
and where did my comment go, I wonder? Those are canterbury bells. and ancient flower that is darned difficult (and expensive) to find. grats!
How wonderful! We are truly blessed to have it. Hope some more come up then!!
I just put your photo in my PlantSnap app and it came up as possibly Canterbury Bells. Certainly looks like them 🙂
Thanks so much Christine.
Your roses are beautiful. Don’t know what the flower is your neighbour found but it is so pretty.
Thanks Fransi. The white one is in our mixed flower bed, and several readers have said it’s a Canterbury Bell. I;’e never seen one before and it is quite lovely
It is Di.
Stunning flowers 🤩
Thank you!
Lovely flowers. Birds seem to be the only answer in dropping a seed for it to pop up.
Roses look lovely too.
thanks Liz
Beautiful pictures, Di. I have not seen the unknown plant here in South Africa.
Reader are saying it’s Canterbury Bells I’ve never heard of it, but it is lovely.
Very nice.
thank you
Beautiful glimpses into your wonderful garden 😍
thank you. It is looking more like a garden now and the veg is coming along nicely.
It is Canterbury bells. Plants become rare when not many people want them so nurseys don’t them. Allow some of the flowers to set seed and try planting next year. Plants spread in many ways. A car in an area that is the are for seed is present, the tires will be picked of seed and spread the plant when the seed falls off and the conditions for growth.
Thanks Bettylouise. We have just left our flower bed to go wild so will do the same apart from hoist out the weeds for next year.
Is it a hollyhock?
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Apparently it is a Canterbury Bells. Quite lovely!
Hi Di. I hear its Canterbury Bells. I looked it up too in Bing Image Search. LOL
Came up with Catalpa Speciosa
Anyways your so lucky to have it! I’m still waiting on my Scarlett Runners to pop up. HOPEFULLY!
It is beautiful and we are so lucky to have a white one by all accounts.
Hope your runners start. We’ve taken the protective little cages off our runner beans and they have shot up a good 6 inches today!
Wow! I only planted mine on June 10th. 4 days? I think it takes 7 to 14 days to start showing. I check 2 or 3 times a day LOL
This is our third batch of runner beans as the first two did nothing! We put small cages round them to protect them from the birds nipping the young shoots and took them away today. The tendrils are creeping up the canes at a phenomenal rate!
I’m getting more and more excited! Maybe mid next week? I’ll see something growing? Fingers crossed
It’s great isn’t it. We had a competition our first year
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Oh my!!! ❤ ❤ ❤ Those roses? Exquisite!! Canterbury Bells? So beautiful! I'd never seen those before! I hope they make themselves to home too! 🙂
Aren’t they lovely? Working on another flowery post at the moment.
My grandmother always thought her violets were in competition with each other to out bloom the others – looks like your roses are doing the same!
The Ancient Mariner (the pink one) is always showy, the red In Loving Memory we get two or three, but Peace last year was a non starter, so I was glad to have two blooms this year, and it looks like another’s coming!
You’ve got a spectacular garden Di! No wonder so many birds and bees come to visit! 😀
I love to see them and we were doubtful if any would come as we had nothing when we first arrived. Then we added a tree and some plants which have established themselves now and they’re coming in.