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What is this?
Lost in Suffolk
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Me again... What 
is this? Is it a giant weed (there are three and they appear to be getting larger!) or is it a plant?? Huge thanks.
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I think you'll find weeds are plants and the dividing line is on a sliding scale in our minds
In the sticks near Peterborough
A wild guess would be the opium poppy but I'm not sure - the leaves might be too green.
Whatever it is it's glorious ... it does look a bit like an opium poppy and they do pop up unnanounced and sometimes grow quite large and then they're gone at the end of the summer.
I think it's wonderfully architectural .... I'd make the most of it and wait and see what it produces ... if it's an opium poppy it's obviously a really good strain so I'd save some seeds if I were you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Giant poppy did cross my mind. Fingers crossed! Thank you for all your replies!
Looks a bit like some kind of Brassica, maybe oilseed rape.
Let us know what happens!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Damnations, I hope not. We are surrrounded by oil seed rape so this is a distinct possibility ?
You'll soon see when flower buds begin to form
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm so jealous, that's a lovely specimen. You can save the seeds afterwards - the seed pods are amazing as well.