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dj.mcdonalddj.mcdonald Posts: 21
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Please can I get some help identifying this plant. Initially I was hoping it was a self seeded foxglove but it’s now massive. It’s over a metre wide (the flowers in the foreground are standard size narcissi, for comparison) 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,160
    edited May 2019
    one of the Burdocks I think, Arctiums


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    nutcutlet said:
    one of the Burdocks I think, Arctiums
    Is that what they used to put in Dandelion and Burdock?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,160
    I think so DGM but haven't researched it. Probably the root if so


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • dj.mcdonalddj.mcdonald Posts: 21
    nutcutlet said:
    one of the Burdocks I think, Arctiums
    Thank you Nutcutlet. I’ve googled and I think you’re right. Nice to know. 

    Shame it wasn’t a foxglove, but I guess I will leave it where it is for now to see if it throws burrs. I can’t get much else to grow in that part of the garden and I have plenty of weeding and work elsewhere in the beds this year. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,915
    It can be a magnificent looking plant if you have the right place for it 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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