Is this what I think it is...?

[goingoverground]

In a moment of lockdown desperation, I chucked seeds from last year's annuals in some empty pots in case I couldn't get anything else.

My lockdown lottery has resulted in some petunias with tiny flowers (I'm guessing their parents last year were a petunia/calibrachoa hybrid) in this pot and these mystery plants.

My head is telling me one thing but at first they looked like something I planted in other pots so my heart is hoping that is what it is and, like the petunias, the bees have mixed things up a bit. The first/lower leaves are a different shape to the upper leaves (second pic).

Anyone want to dash my hopes and confirm my suspicions?

Anyone?

What do you suspect they are?

It's not cannabis as the leaves don't have jagged edges.

Or was that not the thought

@girlcrushonvillanelle, that was not what I was thinking!

Although when I was at college, my boyfriend's younger brother grew "tomato" seedlings in their secluded greenhouse. His mum didn't fall for that so helpfully planted them out in the not-so-secluded garden overlooked by the Met. They disappeared pretty quickly after his brother got back from school.

I suspect they are a rather tenacious weed, not actual weed, that I have been carefully nurturing in the mistaken belief they are antirrhinums.

They're not one of the wild flowers that people find particularly troublesome in the garden, so you're safe to carry on growing them until you see a flower. The usually problematic flower with long leaves like that is a willowherb (Epilobium) and they're not that.

I think I'd hold onto it for another couple of weeks, as I agree with you, those leaves definitely do look rather antirrhinum-y.

It's starting to flower. It's definitely an antirrhinum. My other lockdown lottery antirrhinums have the usual flower spikes and white flowers (like their parents) but this one only has small clusters of 2 or 3 buds and is a rather fetching eighties peach.