Identify plant
Sonia Spinks
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A plant which started growing last year and this year has grown to at least 1.5m. It now has small pale pink flowers growing in a cluster like an umbelliferous plant. The flowers have a scent, slightly sweet with just a hint of sharpness - not unpleasant. The main stem is similar to a parsley plant when it bolts and is about 1cm in diameter. The foliage is dark green and leafy.
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Are there any photos Sonia? That description could cover a lot of plants, not all umbelliferous
In the sticks near Peterborough
I'd say its Valerian. Valeriana officinalis. Lovely smell from a few feet back but not so great close to?
Not the same as the red, pink or white flower that grows on cliffs also referred to as Valerian bit is Centranthus rubra. Something else altogether
In the sticks near Peterborough
Could do with a pic of the whole planttoreally be sure but the height is right and the flowers too. Scent is a bit subjective
In the sticks near Peterborough
why don't you Google it, that way you'll get a photo as well that you can compare to yours ????
cow parsley, maybe??
Or Achilliea? Just thinking about the leaves which could be described as "parsley-ish" A full photo would be good
definitely valerian - valeriana officinalis!
I was just thinking that I might get some of this for my garden when I read that it is attractive to cats in the same way that catnip is - having just come in from the veg patch where I found a visiting cat has dug up and destroyed some of my emerging runner beans, I think that's one plant I'll give a miss
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.