Who wants a challenge.

maybe in the Siberian section.

 

If you genuinely don't know what it is, @pete, how will you know when someone identifies it correctly? Some of us like to sleep at night, you know

 

Good to know it's keeping you up all night.
I thought I'd ask for ideas here so I can get some sleep.

 

Some of the gardens were fenced off for 'improvements', must have come from there so I wouldn't have seen it.

Does look like a legume as to which? I am as clueless as Pete.

 

I think I am right ... or close to it.

 

You're close by looking at the pictures but I'm not convinced.

 

It looks very like swainsona formosa, but with a shrubby stem. Maybe something related like clianthus?

 

@pete , do you remember anything about the mother plant apart from it being 7 ft tall- was it a shrub, evergreen, relaxed habit, twiner...?

Or perhaps it was too dark to tell when you "acquired" the seeds...?

 

Well I had been in the pub before hand, so my memory isn't that great.

I do remember that there was 2 of them, side by side,
Come to that they seem to have planted two of every thing for some reason

Apart from that it was a large dense shrub, but at the same time not heavily leafy.
But no I saw so many plants that day that interested me I don't remember.

Of course I realise now I should have taken a picture.

 

Or he had his balaclava on back to front..

 

I don't know what it is but Indigofera comes to mind, it is part of the legume family and similar leaves but not furry unless they is one with furry leaves

 

That's true, I have/had seeds for that too.

 

I dont think I'm going to get a good ID until it gets bigger and possibly flowers.
Just wanted to know so as to work out hardiness and if it would survive a winter in the ground.
Spent the winter in a cold frame, so is reasonably hardy.
Oh, its deciduous.

So will have to grow it on in a pot and see how it goes.

 

Right, I've put a note on the diary for Sept 2025.....'check with pete what it turned out to be'