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• KeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831

  June 2020

  @steph.jarrett   Could you post a photo?
  
  

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• steph.jarrett Posts: 43

  June 2020

  Here is the photo 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2020

  I can’t see the pic. If it won’t upload reducing the size usually does the trick. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• steph.jarrett Posts: 43

  June 2020

  
  

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• Blue Onion Posts: 2,995

  June 2020

  Comfrey?

  Utah, USA.

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• steph.jarrett Posts: 43

  June 2020

  I did wonder If it was 

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  June 2020

  Doesn't look right for comfrey to me, more like something in the dock family?

  https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=989

  
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• Blue Onion Posts: 2,995

  June 2020

  Yeah.. I thought about dock as well.. but the leaves look too lush and don't have that red blush to the stem/main vein.  

  Utah, USA.

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• Blue Onion Posts: 2,995

  June 2020

  I take that back.. it does look just like the dock in this link https://milliethom.com/2016/08/06/a-perfect-relationship/
  
  

  Utah, USA.

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  June 2020

  @steph.jarrett Are the leaves and stems hairy or smooth?  That should help eliminate one or the other, at least.
  

  They actually remind me of something else entirely but can't pin it down at the moment.
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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