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garyd52garyd52 Posts: 51
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Hi , this popped up in my garden and not knowing what it is I potted it up and it grew into this , does anyone recognise what it is please ?.
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,130
    It looks like an amaranthus

    Billericay - Essex

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,060
    edited September 2018
    it could be Basil. Does it smell of anything? 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • garyd52garyd52 Posts: 51
    Thank you Pete and Lyn , looking at your images it does seem more like Agastache , those green spikes you see on it have been green for around 3 weeks now and are not hinting at turning another colour , does your Agastache start of Green Lyn and do the spikes take some time to gain colour ?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,605
    Not Agastache.
    Could be Amaranthus.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • garyd52garyd52 Posts: 51
    I guess i'm going to have to play the waiting game and see if it develops any colour in those spikes , it has similarities with Amaranthus but also with Agastache .
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,130
    The leaves of agastache have a very distinctive smell - it's not an agastache

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • B3B3 Posts: 26,987
    At least you know it's something beginning with 'A' ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • garyd52garyd52 Posts: 51
    Alien ? lol.
  • garyd52garyd52 Posts: 51
    I have found it thanks to being pointed to Amarynthus , it is this one I believe https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/urban-forager-amaranth-in-abundance/

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,130
    Looks more like Amaranthus Green Thumb

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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