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Plant ID Please

FredTheFifthFredTheFifth Posts: 35
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Hi, dug this up in error in a new garden, not sure what it is but rescued it. It needed a bit of a severe prune to help it recover.
Anyone any ideas please?


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  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    Possibly lemon verbena? 🙂
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Is it golden rod? Can’t quite see
  • FredTheFifthFredTheFifth Posts: 35
    Yes, sorry, not the best picture but I struggled to get a good one.
    Is this any better?
    Have to admit that resorting to images on Google, Verbena looks closest I think.
    Thanks for the help though.


  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Penstemon, maybe?
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FredTheFifthFredTheFifth Posts: 35
    Does this help now that its flowering? Am I nurturing a weed?


  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yes😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Weed.  Look it up in a wild flower book/google.  Beware those seed heads, they look ready to spread every where.  Quick.quick.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    I think it is Canadian Fleabane.  I had a particularly fancy one :)
    Wearside, England.
  • FredTheFifthFredTheFifth Posts: 35
    Victoria Sponge said:
    I think it is Canadian Fleabane.  I had a particularly fancy one :)
    I think you're right. In the bin with it I think, its not particularly attractive and apparently can be very invasive.
    Thanks all for the advice.
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    I did same ;)
    Wearside, England.
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