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Delphinium or weed? 🤔

pal.matchettpal.matchett Posts: 1
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I should start by saying we’re relatively new to gardening so please bear with us.  We thought this (see attached photos) was from previously cultivated  delphinium seeds - and the leaves do appear similar - but they are growing like triffids and no signs of any flowers.  All thoughts appreciated.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They are definitely not like delphiniums. I would say a weed, I don’t know which weed though.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    It looks rather like those Artemesia you see by the roadside and in rough places. Artemisia vulgaris, Mugwort, Wormwood, probably a selection of other common names as well


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • lindaurbanlindaurban Posts: 1
    Looks just like some larkspur that I purchased today. Related to delphinium, and sometimes confused with. When I grew them before, there was a couple months lag between when the leaves got that tall and when the flower showed up.
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