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Someone Please Solve this Mystery

steven.hardy1980steven.hardy1980 Posts: 10
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I have found this in the garden, one person is claiming its Himalayan Balsam, but not sure it fits the leaf shape, can someone help please. 


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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I'm not convinced the leaf is right for Himalayan Balsam although the paler versions don't have red veining in the stems and foliage.  Best to wait till it's flowered for a proper identification and then, if it is, rip it all out before it can set seed and become a real menace - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=480
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    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • steven.hardy1980steven.hardy1980 Posts: 10
    That's what I was thinking

  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    The leaves remind me of a spiraea douglasii I used to have. Would need to see flowers to be certain of ID.
  • steven.hardy1980steven.hardy1980 Posts: 10
    so frustrating not knowing, here are some more pics ... 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Looks like spirea to me. It runs under next door's fence into my garden.  Not very attractive fuzzy pink blossom that looks horrible once it goes brown after about a fortnight.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Mine went in the green bin many moons ago B3. Was labelled as a "buddliea" when I bought it 😡.
  • steven.hardy1980steven.hardy1980 Posts: 10
    ha ha, gardener at work is very sure its a Himalayan Balsam 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Wait till it flowers.   Whatever it is it can't do much harm before it's at seeding point.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    I agree with Spirea douglasii, I used to have one too, in another life!
    East Anglia
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