Can anyone help identify this giant thing that has sprung up in my rewilded (through sheer neglect) flower bed? It looks really cool, but also like it could take over the world sometime soon!! thanks in advance
Lovely plant! It will die after it's flowered and set seed, so if you want more, collect the seed pods when they're ripe and scatter the seed around where you want them next year.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The seedhead changes from green to brown and the top kind of separates leaving little holes all the way round, as soon as those holes are open the seeds are ready, pick the whole seedhead and shake out the seeds.
A lot of them appearing this year judging by the number of recent posts. Perhaps the 'aliens' are planting these instead of caper spurge, which was appearing everywhere last year?!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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