Could it be the Greater Willowherb ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_hirsutum - we had loads of it around the pond and the moat on the farm when we were children - it likes it damp - good for the Elephant Hawkmoth, but even then I'd hesitate to keep in in a normal-sized garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That would be my guess Dove, it has the beginnings of one of those long white roots they put out to colonise their chosen patch. Invasive but easier to eliminate than the rosebay willowherb ( for me anyway)
If it's Epilobium it's probably montanum or lanceolatum. The sparse teeth on the edge of the leaves suggest the latter, but that tends to be a south of England/|Wales plant.
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Edd's photo is rosebay willowherb.
Daisy's photo isn't
In the sticks near Peterborough
Could it be the Greater Willowherb ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_hirsutum - we had loads of it around the pond and the moat on the farm when we were children - it likes it damp - good for the Elephant Hawkmoth, but even then I'd hesitate to keep in in a normal-sized garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That would be my guess Dove, it has the beginnings of one of those long white roots they put out to colonise their chosen patch. Invasive but easier to eliminate than the rosebay willowherb ( for me anyway)
In the sticks near Peterborough
If it's Epilobium it's probably montanum or lanceolatum. The sparse teeth on the edge of the leaves suggest the latter, but that tends to be a south of England/|Wales plant.
Thanks everyone for your kind advise I will be chucking this away
Anybody know what this is? Because the old one died and another one came in its place
It looks to me like the Shoo Fly Plant - Nicandra physalodes
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Really thanks Dove but are these worth keeping
It can be an attractive space-filler in a border. It's an annual so once it's seeded it will die, but of course it may self-sow around the place.
I think it often crops up in gardens via bird seed.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.