If it is an Inula Magnifica - Beth Chatto recommends moist soil and a sheltered site where you can enjoy it in all it's glory - mature height about 2 - 2.5m - that's a BIG plant .....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Hi Pan
Could be inula magbnifica . Another possibility is telekia, do the leaves smell at all?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I can remember thinking, I might even have said, 'Gollygosh, that's going to get big'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it is an Inula Magnifica - Beth Chatto recommends moist soil and a sheltered site where you can enjoy it in all it's glory - mature height about 2 - 2.5m - that's a BIG plant .....
Just had a text from Panda - she's out for supper and didn't want you lot to think she was ignoring you
We're off out for supper in a minute too!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's like when you first get a freezer, everything organised, labelled and sensibly arranged. Then real life intervenes
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Eek to either plant
The name Telekia sounds familiar.......
The leaves do have a smell to them Nut. Not sure which one that puts you in mind of? Will have a Google root 
Next time Dove, please say it MUCH louder
MUCH MUCH LOUDER 
Telekia speciosa Panda
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think you are right Nut
Well done, as usual 
It looks like it might be a nice flower but is in totally the wrong place!
Oh well! It's not the plant's fault! It can stay till it flowers 
Thank you everyone for your help
It's not one of mine is it? I was distributing those last year and I never remember who had what
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think it might be
hahahaha 