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Can anyone tell me if this a plant please

Nikki BNikki B Posts: 90
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 Hi everyone,I'm a complete novice gardener and wondered does anyone know what this might be please, I put it in a pot to save it from my pile of topsoil but I'm not sure if it's a weed any advice would be fab, thank you image

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/7051/Euphorbia-cyparissias/Details



    Wow, the previous home owner loved their euphorbias! E. cyparissias, this one can spread a little.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Looks more like purple toadflax to me.

    http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/T/Toadflax(Purple)/Toadflax(Purple).htm

     

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193

    Not sure that it's Euphorbia - looks rather like Linaria Purpurea.  Let it flower - if you have tall spikes of purple (occasionally pink) flowers that resemble toadflax, then it's L. Purpurea.  A useful plant, easily controlled since it will seed prolifically, but can be pulled up if it's in the wrong place!

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Eek, you could be right there Bob! And I have a huge clump in my front garden too - the shame! It is euphorbia like in it's leaves but the flowers are totally different.



    I'd rather have purple toadflax than E. cyparissias.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Nikki BNikki B Posts: 90

    Thank you everyone, I'm happy I put it in a pot, my husband weed killed the top soil for two years as we wasn't into gardening in those days thought everything was weeds ha ha 

     

  • Nikki BNikki B Posts: 90

    It looks like purple flowers are gonna come it's about a foot tall I have a couple I put them in pots about 2 months ago, but it hasn't really grown much since 

  • DubaidebDubaideb Posts: 1

    Yes definitely linaria.  It self seeded in my old garden in Oxfordshire for years.  Wish I'd brought some seeds to West Wales!

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    You've got a good eye Nikki, I think pretty much everything you've identified as a possible plant so far, has been.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Nikki BNikki B Posts: 90

    Check me out, I love it out there, very good therapy, I'm in Lincolnshire and even though I'm finding it hard work it's worth it image

  • Nikki BNikki B Posts: 90

    It looks like purple flowers are gonna come it's about a foot tall I have a couple I put them in pots about 2 months ago, but it hasn't really grown much since 

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