Unknown plant/shrub

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• Swedboy Posts: 394

  March 2013

  Could it be some sort of begonia or pelargonium?

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• Gardening Grandma Posts: 1,746

  March 2013

  I am wondering if it is sweet violet, which has heart-shaped downy leaves.

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• figrat Posts: 1,619

  March 2013

  Maybe stachys lanata? It has sort of nettle- like flower spikes.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  March 2013

  Clary sage ?

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 3,277

  March 2013

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• Lilylouise Posts: 1,013

  March 2013

  Hollie Hock - could your plant be a Phlomis?

  Pam LL x

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/7903088/How-to-grow-Phlomis-Edward-Bowles.html

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• pr1mr0se Posts: 1,193

  March 2013

  Verbascum bombyciferum?  Vebascums are known as the Velvet Plant, because the leaves are so often soft and - well, velvety.  There are lots of different cultivars, but the spire of the flowers seems to fit in with the description from the chap who sold the plant to you.  Time will tell when it flowers, I suppose.

  Oh - and if it is verbascum, they are susceptible to the Mullein Moth - caterpillars will chomp through the flowers at a rate of knots.  Not for the squeamish - but the easiest way of dealing with them is to be vigilent and pick them off.

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• Lilylouise Posts: 1,013

  March 2013

  http://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/phlomis-russeliana

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  March 2013

  Yes,, I am sure it's a sage of some sort, maybe not the clary one.

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,441

  March 2013

  It's the flower spire like nettles that puzzles me. I agree with lilylouse, looks a bit like phlomis russeliana leaves but the flowers aren't remotely like nettles.

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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