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Mystery plant, help needed please!
DaisyRozanne
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Hi everyone,
I was very kindly given a fuschia from a friends garden but noticed this little fella had snuck in!
My friend thinks it might be some sort of tree sapling when I sent her a photo... Can anybody help identify please? If it is a tree it will be coming out! Thank you in advance 
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Hello DaisyRozanne.
The pale green leaf next to your finger could be a Welsh poppy, perhaps...
Thank you Liriodendron, I've googled Welsh poppy and it does look very similar, I will leave it in and see what it does! Can never have too many poppies
You're welcome! They do seed themselves all over the place, so once you've got them in your garden they'll keep reappearing.
Looks like a tomato plant to me
. Because I use my own kitchen waste in the compost, I get tomatoes popping up all over the garden.
No, I do know what you mean - don't apologise! I used to have problems with poppies in my last garden too and they are a devil to get rid of. In the end I just used to pull them up all the time and try not to complain! The reason I said tomato is because I've been nipping out tomatoes today in one border that was 'treated' with my compost a couple of weeks back!
Unfortunately, some of the tall buttercups also look very much like that
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I lean towards poppy but would like to see it standing alone, just the plant as it is, not bent over with finger
In the sticks near Peterborough
I was thinking welsh poppy. I currently have a load of seedling cucurbits coming up, where I added a sack of compost. Cucumber or marrow or squash, too late for this season so I weeded them out.
I inherited a lot of seedlings which looked exactly like your picture. Never one to throw anything away in haste, I allowed the plants to mature: they are, indeed, Welsh poppies.
Not my favourite plant, but at least once the leaves are identified and identifiable, they can be left in situ if there's a gap, of simply removed if you really don't want them. But dead-heading is a must - or there will be more (and more, and more ...) plants to deal with!