This plant has started growing but I can't identify it, can you help please?

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  August 2021

  I think that’s a type of Salvia. Viridis maybe. 
  Leaves have a very distinct smell. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2021

  I think that's the annual blue Clary ... Salvia viridis 
  https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/salvia-viridis-blue/

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

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2021

  Aha!  Snap! @Lyn ... you weren't there when I posted 

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

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• Andrew Larter Posts: 4

  August 2021

  Thanks for all the help i believe you are right the only remaining mystery is how it got there

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• thevictorian Posts: 1,279

  August 2021

  They self seed quite readily and the seed is quite hard so could persist for some time I guess.

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