[Lulu]

Hello - seems I've got you wondering!!  I have 2 Jacobs ladder and this plant is much much bigger. Its 2-3 foot high and there is flower stem as on the Jacobs ladder.  So unless its a giant mutation I'm not thinking it is  and my MIL has Soloman's seal and its not that the flower buds are in the wrong place for that




This photo might show what I assume are the flowers - on the left of the picture.   I have googled Vetch and think that looks close.  Should I post a photo when it blooms (if that is what it does)? ??Does anyone know a internet site for this sought of thing - besides this lovely site of course?

Thanks for your help 

[mumofstig]

I don't know of another site.....but please can we have a photo when the buds open

[Lulu]

Will do - will call it 'Bud watch' 

[Lulu]

Me plant is beginning to flower - only one out at the moment, pink and white.  In another day I should be able to get a picture. 

[Goosegirl]

Definitely not Solomon's Seal or Callistemon (Bottlebrush) as the leaves are wrong. By its size and leaf shape, I think a shrub belonging to the Mimosa family (or a very large Jacob's Ladder - mmm - not sure).

[Lulu]

Went to the BBC Gardners show today and met 2 lovely chaps on the RHS stand.  I showed them the photo and its a........

Baptisia australis  - otherwise known as False or Wild Indigo.  

They told me it was lovely plant to have and I was lucky, but I've just read it can get very big!!Its at the back of the border so it can stay and I'll see what it does.

http://gardening.about.com/od/plantprofiles/p/Baptisia-australis.htm

Lucky me

[Yorkie]

Well, there you go 

[mumofstig]

However    if you google images of Baptisia the leaves look nothing like your pic.......Baptisia should have trifolate leaves, your plant doesn't  :blink:

look at the RHS description & pic.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=222

so.............................I'd still like to see pictures of it in flower, please   

[Endymion]

look at the RHS description & pic.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=222

so.............................I'd still like to see pictures of it in flower, please   

Same here 

[Sven The Swede]

What is this bush growing down my allotment.

[Sven The Swede]

another picture

[Sven The Swede]

Picture 3

[arugula]

Any aroma clues from rubbing the leaves? They look a bit minty... 

[Sven The Swede]

It a hard wood bush. No minty smell

[Endymion]

Could it be a Spiraea?