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Does anyone know what this plant is?

Sunshine SmilerSunshine Smiler Posts: 33
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 Hello, 

Please could anyone help me identify this plant? Someone gave me a Salvia Turkestanica which has grown beautifully and this has grown up alongside it.

Many thanks.

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Sunflowers I think.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Meadow7Meadow7 Posts: 42

    I think it is Himalayan Balsam, v invasive weed.  Has it got pink flowers?

     

  • Sunshine SmilerSunshine Smiler Posts: 33
    Thank you. That's something I've never grown so I'll see how it goes.
  • Meadow7Meadow7 Posts: 42

    DON"T if it is, you will never get rid of it

  • Sunshine SmilerSunshine Smiler Posts: 33
    Sorry, Meadow 7, hadn't seen your post before I replied. It hasn't flowered yet, the top picture shows what I assume will be a flower. The leaves are very big.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    It's not himalayan balsam which have small flower spikes.  Pretty sure it's a sunflower going by the large bud shape and leaves.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    The 2nd photo has a Salvia turkestanica behind a sunflower. (The top flower)



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    definitely not Himalayan Balsam - I've been battling it in my garden for years


    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Sunshine SmilerSunshine Smiler Posts: 33
    The Salvia is on the photo because they are growing so closely together. The plant has leaves that are very similar in shape and size to the Salvia, but a different colour and smooth textured. I planted the Salvia two months ago but have only noticed this new plant in the last few weeks. It is now about the same size as the Salvia. I'll take another photo.
  • Danae(dan-Ah-ee)Danae(dan-Ah-ee) Posts: 966

    I'm not a gardener in the proper sense of the word, God knows(!),  but I have grown sun flowers many times and though I would agree that the formation of the bud is sunflower like, the shape of the leaf seems to me a little too rounded, perhaps??

    I have seen, in Greece tall, wild flowers with that sunflower type bud, which are certainly not sunflowers.  Might this be something similar?  However, I do suspect Bob the Gardener is perfectly right and I'm utterly wrong.  Again!

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