Whats this

Its a wild flower, I know what it is, but I think it looks supprisingly good, Have a guess.

 

Haven't a clue unless you give one Pete..But the flowers are lovely!

 

That leaf looks a bit like a brassica to me - flowers are lovely but I don't recognise them.

 

Looks awfy posh to be "wild" Pete!

 

Sea kale,horse radish or large bittercress?

Where is it growing?

 

Hornbeam, your great, right on the button.Sea Kale. Fran was very close.
I picked a couple of seeds up on the beach at Dungeness a couple of years ago. This is its first flowering and I'm quite impressed by it.
Its growing on my allotment on a pile of stones and seems happy.

 

Lovely plant and it looks at home on your allotment. Cherish it as it is quite rare now and I have never seen it. The Dungeness colony is one of the biggest in the country. It has declined because people gathered it for food and it has been uncommon since the 1930's.

 

If I get any seed later I'll pass it on to anyone interested.

 

Thanks Pete. I'll see if I can get a colony established somewhere

 

Does it smell of cabbage? I would be happy to try some seed if it doesn't smell too strong! :D

 

Well I dont think it does Liz, not really sniffed it but not noticed it either.
It dies right down to nothing in the winter and comes up like purple sprouting in the spring, had quite large leaves last summer.

Early spring

A few weeks later, you can see the kind of rubble its growing in, but thats luxury to the salty shingle the plants grow in around the coast.