Weed, tree or plant worth keeping?

twopenny

Indeed it could be one of the angelica family.
My neighbour doesn't like gardening and part is full of mysterious things.

Lack of slugs generally in the garden at the moment due to it being bone dry despite recent rain.

Sapindus

What do the leaves smell like if crushed?

pink_poppy

Sorry, Dusty - you know you’ll never be made redundant though 😊

I’m on my phone, so can’t do what I did earlier, but from memory there was a 1% chance of it being elder. I can’t remember what else.

pink_poppy

I’ve managed to do it on my phone and it does say Sambucus Nigra (common elder) at 4%. My favourite though was Hairy Crabweed at 1% 😁

twopenny

Sapindus, I had a sniff at crushed leaf and it did have a mild smell but I'm not sure what of 🤔

It was a pleasant light vegetable smell, like some plants that used to be culinary or medical but pleasant.
Don't have much practice at smelling other than fragrant leaves.

I dug down the pot a bit to see if there were tubers but just soft stem.
I'll tip them out tomorrow and see as if they aren't Daliahs nothing lost, if they are they'll survive replanting.

Sapindus

Mild and pleasant doesn't sound like elder then.

Dustyevsky

Sapindus said:

Mild and pleasant doesn't sound like elder then.

I have to agree, elder's smell is unmistakeable.

sheramber

i planted a clematis  5 years ago but it just 'died.' 

Not as much as a shoot or leaf since then until this year. 

It has grown up the support and flowered profusely.

I have learned over the years not to be too quick to discard a plant that seems to have died.

The roots can be  surviving under the soil.

 I have had some come back to life after a year but 5 years  is a first.

Farway

sheramber said:

i planted a clematis  5 years ago but it just 'died.' 

Not as much as a shoot or leaf since then until this year. 

It has grown up the support and flowered profusely.

I have learned over the years not to be too quick to discard a plant that seems to have died.

The roots can be  surviving under the soil.

 I have had some come back to life after a year but 5 years  is a first.

Must be the same variety I have, goes to sleep for years then goes mad

Mine eventually decided death was really the best option & went brown, crinkly & very dead

twopenny

Watched Monty Don last night simply explaining clematis and pruning.
Explains why mine doesn't do well 😄
First edition this year just under half in I think.

Haven't got round to turning out the pot.
Been watching a wild pony giving birth......or nearly. Much more interesting.