like borage but not like borage

Hi,

Firsty apologies; I know it is irritating to not have a photo and be expected to identify a plant, my camera is not happy so I can't get one up here.

The plant was to all intents and purposes a commonly seen borage then it flowered. it has flowers much like a pea and these are lilac and white, and there are tufts of them all over it. The stems, rather than the flower is scented a bit like cologne really so I am inclined to assume it is a herb. It wouldn't surprise me to find it is some kind of borage, and I know I have at some point known what it is but the name of it escapes me.

It as a hairy square stem and look s white/silver in the sun.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Could it be Lamium " White Nancy "?:gnthb:

 

Thanks David, googled it, unfortunately it isn't that, the leaves are one colour-no edging and are around 12 inches or so long. I was convinced it was borage all the way until it flowered-it looks almost exactly the same.

Driving me nuts not to remember this one's name.

 

I knew I would drive myself nuts with this lol. Thanks Marley, but no it isn't comfrey either. It is, in my usual nonsensical way described best as " kind of like a mint with the strong scented foliage and stems, that is a bit like a dead-nettle ( flowers are longer and more undulous though)-and very like one in that the stem is square whilst it's growth and leaves make it looks an awful lot like borage ( same size and everything) until it flowers-these flowers don't appear to be changing colour like borage do either" :S

I will have to sort out my camera because I won't be able to think of anything else otherwise lol. As a sidenote they are very promising as future garden plants as they are quite dramatic and extremely beautiful. They don't flop over quite as easily as the borage has done either.

 

Goat's Rue? A long shot, I know...

 

Nothing like it Aaron.............................aaaarrrrggghhh I am doing this to myself now- I know I am lol

 

This is fun, isn't it?:lollol:

Ok...go and sort your camera out Claire and don't return until you can post a picture!:thumb::D

 

Yeah, that's probably the best idea lol...................in the meantime, it is flowering in tufts so I would say it must be a dead nettle of some kind but it isn't the large flowered dead nettle-this one is very pale by comparison and it's leaves are similar but definitely borage-like.

 

Again, Marley is on the right track, square stem so probably a labiate.:ntwrth:

 

wild stab in the dark

http://www.dungeness-nnr.co.uk/images/vipers_bugloss.jpg

 

I wish-that is gorgeous, no, I am more inclined to go with a kind of dead nettle.


Photo soon, I promise. I'd apologise for the lack of image but I have had a laugh doing it this way.