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Same old mystery plant, but with a pink clue
Hi folks - you may remember me telling you about a thin spindly seedling that came up with my celery, and I took a pic when it got bigger, and some people thought it might be a form of salad leaf, but I didn't fancy eating it. Well, it has grown on a bit, and has now come up with a pink flower that looks like a feather duster!! So I am pretty sure that someone will be able to identify it now, but I would love a name, so that I can figure out what on earth I am going to do with it!! It is exactly the sort of thing I would never grow in a month of Sundays, but I am a firm believer that accidents in the garden can be the start of unexpected love affairs, so you never know.....!
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Bit early to tell but looks like Astilbe to me.
It looks like an Amaranthus to me
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/39.shtml
Love lies bleeding
Pam LL x
Are the chicken and mushroom noodles any good?
I'm with Ll
In the sticks near Peterborough
Supernoodle, to be fair, they are hit and miss. Sometimes you get a right good load of noodle and sauce, and sometimes it's like they forgot to fill the container. I don't eat them myself, but our foster children have an emotional attachment to the Pot Noodle
... (whatever you are thinking guys, is probably spot on) So every now and again, we indulge them, but won't pay a quid for them, so they get the Tesco version 
. Disclaimer: the foster children eat a healthy balanced diet of home grown, organic fruit and vegetables (photographic proof available), and noodles are an occasional 'treat'.
Where was I? Yes I think Lilylouise you have got it (by Jove!). The flower is like astilbe, but I just went out and checked and the leaves are more like Love lies bleeding. That is a real name to conjure with. My dad grew some when I was about six - I remember being quite struck with the name, and the plants too. So I will do some reading and work out where it can go!!! Thanks guys xx
Oooh- I've grown some of these from seed this year- I didn't know the flower head appeared like that- I'll keep an eye out for them.
The leaves on my mine are a solid maroon colour- I assume the flower will be the same as there wasn't a photo on the packet
Recently I read that there is an edible Amaranthus, is this the plant that was mentioned in the article?
Victoria the leaves of this one have been very red, right from the start, but if you google images, most of the leaves are green on the fully grown plants - whether this is a varietal difference or they go green as the plant develops I don't know. But the leaves definitely look the same shape. Invicta, when this plant first appeared on Plant ID, one or two people thought it was something to eat, but I didn't take a chance! But I saw that too when I googled it, and I also saw that they are annuals which grow to 3 - 8 feet tall. 8 feet from an annual? Maybe they are perennials in their home country, which allows them to get that big. Not sure where I would put an 8 foot plant at the moment...
For some reason I thought they were HHP, but on that article above it says HHA...