Linaria purpurea
Purple Toadflax
Mid Summer 2016
53
- 7
Mid Winter 2016
16
- 8
Late Autumn 2015
14
- 6
Mid Summer 2015
9
- 1
Late Spring 2015
0
- 0
Late Winter 2015
0
- 0






Linaria purpurea
Mid Summer 2016
53
Mid Winter 2016
16

I take far too many pictures of this plant. It's very photogenic! 😀📷 #rain #newgrowth

Great picture

I've got loads popping up again. I love it @richard.spicer.7906 😍😍

Great pic 👍

Richard, I know this is an old pic but I need help knowing how low to cut mine back it is it's first year. 😍

Hi @sara2309 - I leave mine to completely die off and rest over winter so I would just cut back any spent flowers for now and enjoy the foliage for the rest of the year. Shoots will always come from the base rather than from existing stems. You may even get a second flush of flowers. It also helps prevent any seeds spreading (unless that is the effect you are looking for). Be careful when you get the stems on this plant as you get milky sap which can be a skin irritant, so wear gloves 👍🏼

Thanks Richard, it has been a bee magnet this year. I have fallen completely in love with it. I will leave it a little longer before I remove flower stems as the bees are still all over it 😍

😀👍🏼🐝🐝🐝🐝🌸 @sara2309
Late Autumn 2015
14

The mild weather is causing so many plants to come to life. I've got shoots of Toadflax popping up all over the place, not that I mind as the fresh greyish green #foliage is quite attractive 😊

#macro #newgrowth

I have this Richard. I love it and I have it everywhere too lol. I don't have a uniform garden. I just let plants do as nature intended even if it's in the wrong place ! 😂😂

@richard.spicer.7906

Same here Pearl, I let them do their thing naturally 😊 @fuschia

Bit too prolific fort small garden!
Mid Summer 2015
9

Not as great a display as i have had in the past with this toadflax, but happy anyways 😁
Late Spring 2015
0
Late Winter 2015
0
Cabbage white #butterfly , I think?
That's what I always call them... @richard.spicer.7906 😬
Looks like a Green-veined White to me.
Ah, perfect! Thanks @tiggrx 😀👍🏼 #greenveinedwhite
Oops! Thanks @tiggrx 😊
Can watch butterflys all day x
Loving the wings 👌👌