On 09/07/2013 22:09, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
On 09/07/2013 20:47, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 09/07/2013 19:44, Malcolm wrote:

In article , Jeff Layman
writes
On 09/07/2013 18:54, Nick wrote:
Growing at a neighbours property. About 2m tall with small red
flowers/florets.
She is a little concerned as to what it may be and I am not blessed
with
green fingers.
Have posted a couple of (poor) pics he
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xqk9mxbpfne6ojj/v9PihDphfm

Haven't tried this before and don't know how/if it will work.

Thank you,

It would help if the flowers were in focus! However, I'll hazard a
guess at Common Figwort.

I tend to agree - Scrophularia nodosa - except that 1 metre is what the
books say about overall height.

They do, but the plant doesn't know that. I have seen it growing to
180 to 200 cm in Surrey.

I was thinking maybe a Scrophularia, but aren't the leaves wrong from
Scrophularia nodosa? OTOH, the inflorescence structure seems to be a
better match for that than for the other species.

I think the leaf of S. nodosa isn't far off, but looking at the first
photo the plant seems to be taller than 2m - maybe 2. 5m or more. That
would make S. nodosa very unlikely.

Seems to me now that it is far more likely to be Scrophularia marilandica.

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Jeff