Solved Two Giant Plants in Pots

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  1. Victoria

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    We are not sure about these two mystery fast growing plants. We think the one looks like Osteospermum, the other ????

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    Re image 2, do you have any Evening Primrose nearby?
     
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    Thanks for responding Scrungee but no. Both these plants are growing at an extraordinary rate and can only assume both are self-seeded. I do have Osteopernum but only think of them spreading by runners. I want to transplant these as these pots are for other flora.
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Got a feeling I've seen something like the second one before, but what I'm thinking of is a weed.
    Could it be some kind of Impatiens.

    No 1 does look like an Osteospermum, has it got that familiar smell when you rub the leaves.
     
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      I have had Balsamina in a pot the other end of that patio (about 8 meters away) for a few years, just got some more going last week. But it has never been that big. Perhaps a seed blew that way. Think I will keep it till it blooms as it is in a nice spot.

      I am sure it is Osteo as it runs rampant nearby. Shall dig that up and plant in the lowers rockery.

      Thanks for the thoughts.
       
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        Doesn't that have toothed leaves? The leaves in the image appear to have smooth edges.
         
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          Wasn't thinking of I. balsamina as such, just that the foliage had the look of an Impatiens.

          But maybe the stem is not fleshy enough.:smile:

          Could it be one of the weedy type willows.
           
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          Willows??? Here???
           
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          With hindsight, last year I sowed some Salvia Tricolour which never germinated, but this doesn't have a scent.
           
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          Could it be in solanum family? Ignore that - you'd certainly notice the smell compared to a salvia! I think we might have to wait for Silver Surfer!
           
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          Funny you should say that as it came up in one of the app searches but what Solanum grows at the speed of light and is already 90 cms tall in a few weeks?
           
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          I loaded the plant app @Texas Pete uses and it came up as Phytolacca americana which we had in Alabama known as Poke Sallet ... so up and away it went in the weed trug. I have never seen it here so some bird must have deposited it as they sit on the guttering above.

          The Osteo was planted elsewhere.

          Thank you for the help.
           
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