Yet another 'please help me identify this plant' thread!!!

[catwithflowers]

Growing in our little cottage garden, presumably self-seeded as I can't remember planting it. The leaf is a little like an aquilegia but the flowers are totally different. It is about three feet tall and rather pretty

Does anyone know what it is please?

[shovetheholly]

Thalictrum!

[catwithflowers]

Oh, thanks so much! I am usually quite well up on plant names but didn't have a clue about this one!! Off to google it now! Much appreciated

[apatheticfallacy]

There's a free app called plantnet that identifies plants from a photo. I've only just discovered it but it agrees with holly.

I'm off to photograph more plants to test it out

[apatheticfallacy]

Hmm... It doesn't seem terribly accurate actually

[catwithflowers]

[Gatekeeper]

oh that's pretty; I am also envious of your foxgloves. For some reason I haven't got any this year as last years lot haven't seeded themselves. I love watching bees zoom in and out of the flowers and hearing their muffled buzz

[catwithflowers]

Those ones are new, Gatekeeper, so I can't feel smug about them at all . B&Qs finest and on offer!!!

[Footle]

Foxgloves, around here (NW England ) anyway, come up every other year. There may be a few in the wrong year, but even-numbered years have far more. IME.