My first thought was weedkiller Nutcutlet - having grown up on a farm in the 60s I've seen enough distortion of plants due to weedkillers - but don't think this is it - but it might be due to weedkiller in manure/compost I suppose - slightly different .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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p.s. saying that they remind me of the tops of some of my Winter flowering sprouting broccoli that have been chomped / pecked.
No weedkillers, nutcutlett.
All 5 plants looked like this. They are growing in with my hydrangeas and so far nothing else has been affected.
My first thought was weedkiller Nutcutlet - having grown up on a farm in the 60s I've seen enough distortion of plants due to weedkillers - but don't think this is it - but it might be due to weedkiller in manure/compost I suppose - slightly different .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If so Dove, why has it not affected other plants?
certainly looks like weedkilller damage to me. Any chance of a picture at the base?
did these grow from seed where they are now or have they been bought/grown and planted?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Was your manure/compost bought bagged or loose from someone?
Could this be some kind of fasciation, like in Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fasciation'?
The plant self seeded. Any compost (Homebase) was used around other plants without any ill effect and it is certainly not weedkiller.
I have not heard of fasciation, it may be affected by this, but I still do not know what the plant may be...Any more ideas?
In the background of your middle picture there are leaves that could be evening primrose. re they the same plant?
It's hard to ID anything that's so distorted it's become unrecognisable
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