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Plant identification

angelabush485angelabush485 Posts: 2
in Problem solving
Can anybody help to identify this plant that has appeared in my garden? It looks like cosmos but although having buds has not flowered.  It is about 4 feet tall.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Nor have some of mine...
    I think it is cosmos and I've got 2. The rest got rust and I pulled them.
    One still has no buds, the other has just opened its first flower.
    Thy're both huge ferny plants - my soil is too rich for them, so they just keep growing and by the time they realise they have to flower and set seed it's the end of the season.

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • angelabush485angelabush485 Posts: 2
    Thanks Pete. Although it looks very pretty it has appeared in totally the wrong place - right at the front of the border:) I am hoping it will still flower so I can collect some seed!
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Looks like it's nearly there then you can collect seed when the flower dies.
    I'm hoping my other one will flower before Christmas :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, certainly Cosmos, I have 1 or 2 that have not flowered yet.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Shade and ground cover limit the number of weeds, and hence surprises, that I get in my garden.  On the line between lawn and border I hand weed assiduously, so no weed reaches that size.  I do get foxgloves, forgetmenots and teasles but I reconise these and thin and leave.
     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."
  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    Cosmos occasionally produce huge volumes of foliage with no flowers. About 5 years ago there seemed to be an epidemic of this in gardens up and down the country.  Possibly linked to nutrient levels.
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