A strange plant that looks like dill

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Or carrot tops. Any idea what it is ? It is growing well all over a patch of soil I chucked loads of seeds on and no idea what I tried to grow.

Thank you

Fennel?

Young nigella plant?

Nigella damascena - love-in-a-mist

Possibly nigella?

Maybe cosmos

nigella, it will have lovely flowers very soon

Yes that is nigella.

If you rub or squash the leaves a bit and it smells like aniseed then it’s fennel.

If not then cosmos or nigella as others say. I can’t tell the difference!

I thought catnip was nettles the other day…. :-D

cosmos

I’ll eat my hat if that’s not nigella.

@ComeIntoTheGardenMaud your hat is safe.

Looks like Nigella to me too!

I’d go with Nigella, but could be Cosmos, don’t think so though

@40friedfish Phew! I have quite a collection but am loathe to surrender one!

Cosmos foliage is usually sparser than that and more horizontal. I think I can see the characteristic spherical flower buds of nigella amongst the froth.

Hi everyone, thank you! I had forgotten that I'd posted this thread.
Nigella rings a bell.... I ordered seeds as per the advice on here when I put a post out ages ago regarding things to grow on a dry hot patch.

So it will flower?

It probably will & seed itself everywhere over the next few years. It's easy to pull up though if you get too many but adds a lovely splash of colour & the seed heads are attractive too.

Looks like nigella to me too. Mine has just started flowering on a bare patch of crap earth. I saw posts warning about its self seeding but I'm happy with it. Everything else on that patch has failed to thrive.

looks like my cosmos

Definitely Nigella. Looks similar to cosmos when small

Definitely could be nigella. Although most of mine is over now. I'm also going to throw Larkspur into the ring - looks v similar before it flowers. I don't think it's cosmos though. Exciting!