What;'s this flower?

[WigWamBam]

I've seen a lovely little alpine (I think) flower in someone's garden and I'd love to know what it is so I can get some! It looks a bit like a daisy in form, but bigger, it has long, slim petals around a dark centre, the flower is about 2" across and opens wide out in sunshine but seems to close again in the shade. The flower is a dark bluey/purple colour, a bit like the colour of a dark Michaelmas daisy, the stem is short, and there is a small amount of slightly feathered foliage. Anyone know what this is?

Just re-read shyshyshy and will not cry as I'm a hairy trucker.

Grow little bean, grow.

Awwww, don't cry, the poem wasn't that bad

I'm pretty sure it's not a hepatica, the leaves don't look right, and the petals are much slimmer.

This is getting silly now!

I know we tried Blanda,

but var. imgramii ?

Also see Hortensis on same page.

Can you say what makes those wrong / different to point me in right direction ?

Sorry typo there.... Ingramii

It looks very like the hortensis, except that it's only 2" tall, and the flower is about the same size across. But otherwise, that's what the flower looks like.

The Ingramii is close, too, but the centre is dark rather than yellow.

I'm getting warm, though, aren't I, WWB ?

I wonder if the dark centre you saw is just an immature yellow one...

or a bug in camoflage ????

Maybe if you look in a day or so it will be yellow...

And the bug will have been dispatched to active duty elsewhere in the Midlands...

Damn. I thought I might win a prize or sommit.

Maybe a profiterole, or a banana muffin.

OK. How about one of the anenomes linked off this page

They are terribly pretty and some have your dark centres. Double flowered some of them though....

Coronaria can have a dark centre

If the Devotion or the St Brigid weren't double, I would say it was one of those. Unless my eyesight is worse than I thought it was and there really was a bug in the middle ... in which case I shall sack my optician.

Here, have a banana muffin for your pains

V. pretty hybrids, eh...

Hadn't seen those before.

Gorgeous. And if I can't find the one I want, there are loads there that are just as pretty. And just as blue

Could it be a blue version of this?

I have these in my garden and they open and close with the sun. They come in many different colours.

Just come into this thread- gave me a great laugh on a Friday night after 3 days nursing sick dd
Not quite as green fingered as my chat name suggests so no idea what the flower is though. But surely you can pluck up the courage to ask? Or maybe you could say dd or ds picked one before you could stop her/him and you wanted to apologise - and by the way what is it?
If it makes you feel any better I keep going past a house with lovely white roses in the garden, and still haven't quite managed to ask what they are. Probably because I know that the chances are some la di da designer put them in and the owners won't know.

gardengirl, I think WigWamBam is semi-sorted on the Mystery Blue.

And anyway, sadly, she is now in prison so can't post - didn't you see the other thread ? She went round to the neighbour with the blue flower SCREAMING that the flower WASN'T A VINCA and chopped her up with a cleaver.

But.... your white rose.... now that's another story.

If you go here to David Austen Roses you can search for all white roses and maybe add a few details (climber / shrub / single / double-flowered etc.

Good luck !

I'm pleading Not Guilty on the grounds of insanity.

how's about this ...pretty blue flower

this thread is turning into a classic ...who dunnit!

It's very pretty ... but it's not the one!