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Help identify please
Gilian
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My friend is wondering if this is something she p!anted or if it's a weed. I know I've seen it before but can't think where or what.
No smell and a very thick stem. 
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It looks a bit like shasta daisy
Melianthus?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not shasta. I've been out weeding round mine today, wrong leaves! It's annoying me, I recognise it but I can't place it!
Angelica?
Shall I shout it a bit louder .... it looks to me like MELIANTHUS!!!
http://www.bethchatto.co.uk/i-n/melianthus/melianthus-major.htm
Last edited: 31 May 2017 16:32:43
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you so much folks. I won't take the credit when I tell my friend. It's funny because everyone I have asked recognised it but couldn't name it. MELIANTHUS it is then, Dovefromabove. ?
The mystery is solved now that the plant has flowered. Stem over 6ft tall and lots of buds away to flower. It's a ....... Scabious!
Last edited: 11 July 2017 20:38:38
Beautiful. Leaves were very confusing. This one is Cephalaria Gigantea, the giant scabious.