Just what exactly am I growing?

This is growing where a struggling perennial Lobelia was. I had assumed for a while that was what it was, but is clear now that I was wrong.


I've probably been nurturing a weed!

Thanks in anticipation!

 

Don't worry a weed is just a plant in the wrong place

 

Blimey, pot sprang to mind at first, but it isn't.

One of the Willow Herbs?

 

The leaves look like leucanthemum, but there the similarity ends.

 

Aw, Zigs, I didn't think you were that innocent!

I still think it might be a lobelia. I had one once and it was green and weedlike too.

Try smoking it and see what happens.

 

I'm not

 

I think it'll be one o' them syphilitic lobelias.

 

Thanks all! It's really bugging me!

You must have psychic abilities! That is what was growing there, but this is different;
a] the stem is not square,
b] this is where the flowers should emerge, not a shorter stem..................


Maybe I should add this - I do toss failed seed pots down, although not that I can remember in this spot.

 

So do I, it all adds to the fun!

 

...............or frustration (as in this case)!

 

Looks resplendent - whatever it is. Can't wait to see it bloom...
Jenny

 

I'm dreading it!!!

 

Hope it's not a mutant triffid type Willowherb that blooms, sets seed and covers 3 square miles on a breezy day,
Jenny

 

It's not one of the many types of Salvia is it Longk?

 

I have an answer, and it was obvious in the end. Solidago, AKA Goldenrod. Obvious because the previous owners allowed a whole clump of it to grow on the other side of the garden. As they chucked everything in the compost I put it there when I used their compost to top the soil up.