Trough flowers

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I planted up a chunk of self-sown seedlings that didn't look like the standard corn-marigold/poppy/camomile mix, and they are turning out to be offspring of last year's trough flowers. Above we have a much more vigorous specimen of the mystery Linaria which now actually *is* showing a tendency to grow its flowers in spikes, so I think it genuinely is a toadflax cultivar -- a Linaria purpurea that isn't purple!
https://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/Toadflax-Springside-White/


We also have a crop of the Gypsophila vaccaria, and an unexpected purple cornflower in the trough, which I think comes from the 'Flowers for Birds' seed rather than being an offspring of the original cornfield mix!

Interestingly enough it is looking as if I genuinely do have germination from the saved seed that I planted (and it definitely was a Swan River daisy in there, presumably pink... I also have what looks like another one in the *other* compartment, which is ironic as nothing germinated in the compartment where I actually sowed it!). The two seedlings in one compartment that looked very much like yet more shoo-fly are putting out true leaves that are definitely not shoo-fly, which means they are presumably the Gypsophila vaccaria that I sowed there; I used to have a scattering of tiny unidentified seedlings all the same in the compartment labelled 'Linaria', but those appear to have been hit very hard by the heat of the past few days and only a couple are now extant :-(
I did thin out (or at least pot up) the Gypsophila elegans, and those are doing very nicely :-)