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Weed or not

VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
Any adea what this is growing with my agapanthus


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2022
    Foxgloves? Are there any others in the vicinity?


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





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  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    Or hedge woundwort maybe?
    Do the leaves have an unpleasant smell?
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think it could be hedge woundwort. It spreads by runners and I agree and unpleasant smell.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I'll go with Foxgloves


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    By definition, if it's in the wrong place it's a weed. Pull it out.  If it comes with a big stoloniferous root, it's stachys, dry it and compost.  If just fine roots, plant it somewhere else and observe.
     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."
  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    I've got foxgloves in my garden,the seedling has not got a unpleasant smell. I've taken a pic of a leaf of te plant and one of a foxglove seedling in one of my borders.

    Left leaf is the plant in questionand the right one of a foxglove leaf in one of my borders.


  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Hedge Woundwort is a Stachys perhaps it could be an ornamental form?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    Pulled abit up, no big stoloniferous roots.


  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    It looks like foxglove, the leaves of  seedlings are often lighter in colour.
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