Plant ID please!

[PenfoldsFive]

I didn’t plant this (at least, I don’t think I did!), anyone know what it is? It looks like it’s about to have pink/purple flowers.

Those look like delphinium leaves to me.

But delphinium are usually blue or white

Looks like Japanese Hop (which is invasive), update when it flowers please.

My plants app has given me these, based on your photo.

Looks like hardy geranium to me. Small pink flowers, perennial and no special care needed. Cut it back after flowering and it will grow and flower again. Spreads readily.

Ooer. I don’t like the idea of invasive.

I moved it last week, it had popped up behind something else so I moved to where it could be seen. I thought it was going to be a poppy or something nice.

The good news is that if it is something undesirable it will be easy to pull out.

Ah now, just seen the post about hardy geranium. I do have geranium Rozanne, but the leaves are different. Do they self seed or mutate?

They mutate in my garden!. Not sure how,but they do seem to thrive on neglect as long as it's a sunny spot.

@joesexotic

Which plant app is that please? We'd like a good app to find out what some plants are.

If that's an example of what that particular app comes up with, I wouldn't bother.

Might be Astrantia

Yes, I was going to say Astrantia - well worth keeping. Pretty sure it's not a hardy geranium. Since you're so near to flowering, wait to see what the flower is.

Agree with yamadori re app - the id is wrong in so many ways I don't know where to start. Although it is closer on the other id, if it's thinking about the plant in the background -it's at least got the right family.

I shall return when there are some flowers!

I think the one in the background is a type of buddleia, I grew it from a cutting I took from a plant down the road.

I’m 100% going with delphinium 👌

There are loads of varieties now with pink, lilac, purpley flowers (they’re the ones I like!)

Yes the one behind is Buddleja globosa - orange ball tree x

I’m now thinking rogue geranium.

www.waltersgardens.com/variety.php?ID=GERRO

Similar?

Yep, reckon so. Wonder where it has come from!

The reason I didn't think it was a Buddleia is that Buddleia globosa has its flower heads on stems, not tight against the leaves on the main stem. But if you grew it from a cutting it's more likely to be Buddleia that Phlomis. However, if later in the season it grows another stem our of the middle of the ball of flower with more leaves and another ball of flowers, then it's not the Buddleia.

I hadn't looked at the pinky-blue flower - yes, that's geranium. I was misled by the clusters of buds at the top which look like they have bracts around them