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Can anyone recognise this yellow-flowered plant?

Badly_MaintainedBadly_Maintained Posts: 114
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Hello all,

Sorry to keep asking people to recognise plants all the time :/

The plant in the photo below grows to approaching 3 feet high, and the form is somewhere between spherical and semi-spherical.  When you get very very close it has a faint scent, which in my opinion is a bit like cabbages.  It dies back completely above ground at the end of Summer if memory serves.

The photo below was taken around five weeks ago (the red pencil is to provide scale).

Thank-you in advance for any help anyone is able to offer.

"If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2022
    It’s one of the brassicas … hence the smell of cabbages … probably Oilseed Rape, but I can’t really see the leaves enough for a firm ID. 


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





  • Badly_MaintainedBadly_Maintained Posts: 114
    Dovefromabove said:
    It’s one of the brassicas … hence the smell of cabbages … probably Oilseed Rape, but I can’t really see the leaves enough for a firm ID. 

    Thank-you :-)

    "If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s a pleasure … never hesitate to ask … we like to help if we can 😊 

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





  • Badly_MaintainedBadly_Maintained Posts: 114
    Thank-you both for your very kind words.
    "If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
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