@nutcutlet and @Silver surfer I always look to you for positive plant ID's but wondered if the leaves to the back were the fixing stems of a climbing Hydranga. The one to the front bare the flowers? Having said this I am not entirely confident about the leaves. If it is salvia there are a long list of them.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Something about the growing tips and leaf vein pattern looks salvia-ish to me, maybe one of the large leaved types. If it is, you'd need flowers to be able to guess at the variety.
For comparison, this is a shoot of S. Amante. Your leaves look more similar to Amistad or maybe the blue guaranitica types (darker green, less pointed leaves than Amante), but I can't find a flower-less shoot on those for comparison.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Please may I ask where in the world this was?
Is it UK?
In the sticks near Peterborough
More pics, more information, please.
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