A bit like wild carrot - although you have a very substantial plant there and the leaves maybe look a bit thicker than wild carrot. First instinct was nasty hemlock but leaves don't look exactly alike. Difficult to differentiate for me. Ha ha - in other words, I haven't a clue!
It's ok Fishy, I've promised OH I won't put it in the salad
Hi Yarrow - yes, it's just 'too much' for wild carrot for me.
Hi Punkdoc - it does look a bit like it, but my plant has smooth round stems rather than having ridges - it really is odd - it doesn't quite fit with any description - and I thought I was pretty good on wild plants
I hope the flower gives us a few more clues
Fool's Parsley is supposed to have an unpleasant oniony smell, but even when crushed my plant leaves just smell slightly of Cow parsley - not even as strong as Cow parsley.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh Salino, thank you - I think you might be right - I shall be VERY DISAPPOINTED if it isn't - the Higgledy Garden website describes it thus
"... Orlaya Grandiflora is a cousin of the wonderfully useful Ammi Majus, a mysterious, sophisticated and saucy cousin…the kind of girl a chap would like to meet out on the balcony during a ball at a Russian palace.
She is a most distinctive annual with pure white umbels which seem to hover over a delicate and much divided fern like foliage. A very soothing addition to the garden or cut flower patch.... "
..I do hope so....love those comments on the higgledy site...lol...
...this plant seems to be popular with landscape designers at the moment...I only read about it as it was used at Chelsea in one of the gardens.... on researching further I read that it was similar in appearance to a wild carrot...which alerted me back to your plant...
..I thought you would like it....do hope it's that...we shall have to wait and see...
...Orlaya was used in the best in show garden this year for Laurent Perrier...it's also popular at Great Dixter gardens apparently... and as a companion for roses.... it'll be a bit of a shame now if it proves to be something else...lol....
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Could be wild carrot? Maybe wait until it flowers?
A bit like wild carrot - although you have a very substantial plant there and the leaves maybe look a bit thicker than wild carrot. First instinct was nasty hemlock but leaves don't look exactly alike. Difficult to differentiate for me. Ha ha - in other words, I haven't a clue!
Looks a bit like Selinum wallacianum [ sp? ]
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S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It's ok Fishy, I've promised OH I won't put it in the salad
Hi Yarrow - yes, it's just 'too much' for wild carrot for me.
Hi Punkdoc - it does look a bit like it, but my plant has smooth round stems rather than having ridges - it really is odd - it doesn't quite fit with any description - and I thought I was pretty good on wild plants
I hope the flower gives us a few more clues
Fool's Parsley is supposed to have an unpleasant oniony smell, but even when crushed my plant leaves just smell slightly of Cow parsley - not even as strong as Cow parsley.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
..I think your plant is Orlaya grandiflora....a hardy annual...
Oh Salino, thank you - I think you might be right - I shall be VERY DISAPPOINTED if it isn't - the Higgledy Garden website describes it thus
"... Orlaya Grandiflora is a cousin of the wonderfully useful Ammi Majus, a mysterious, sophisticated and saucy cousin…the kind of girl a chap would like to meet out on the balcony during a ball at a Russian palace.
She is a most distinctive annual with pure white umbels which seem to hover over a delicate and much divided fern like foliage. A very soothing addition to the garden or cut flower patch.... "
We shall wait for her to flower ........
- See more at: http://higgledygarden.com/2011/08/29/orlaya-grandiflora-white-lace-flower/#sthash.DOOdLfnI.dpuf
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
..I do hope so....love those comments on the higgledy site...lol...
...this plant seems to be popular with landscape designers at the moment...I only read about it as it was used at Chelsea in one of the gardens.... on researching further I read that it was similar in appearance to a wild carrot...which alerted me back to your plant...
Oooh, I may be right 'on trend' without even trying - how cool is that?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
..I thought you would like it....do hope it's that...we shall have to wait and see...
...Orlaya was used in the best in show garden this year for Laurent Perrier...it's also popular at Great Dixter gardens apparently... and as a companion for roses.... it'll be a bit of a shame now if it proves to be something else...lol....