Hello !

Can you help me identify this plant? I've grown it from seed in Feb and planted it out in May when it was approx 6 inch tall. Its now starting to take over my shrub border! The leaves have spikes along with the stems and have slight hairs on the leaves. The leaves smell of a tomato plant smell....
I live in the UK

Any help would be very much appreciated!!

I shoud also add that it has not flowered yet so I don't know if it will this year and what colours and shapes it will produce!!

It's a Cleome or spider flower.
a lovely annual plant which produces lovely spikey usually pink flowers that are scented.
Is a nice 'weed' to come up and well worth keeping.

(oh, and don't let anyone try to tell you it's cannibis :-D)

Cleome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WOW ! Thankyou very much !! - I've had several people puzzled over this plant - It certainly looks at interesting flower once it starts!

Cannabis was mentioned a few times !! - I was ready to dig it up... well.. maybe ;-) he he

On Jul 20, 5:02*pm, MFNB wrote:
WOW ! *Thankyou very much !! - I've had several people puzzled over this
plant - It certainly looks at interesting flower once it starts!

Cannabis was mentioned a few times !! - I was ready to dig it up...
well.. maybe ;-) *he he

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MFNB

I had a young teen trying to tell me I was growing pot when he saw my
Cleome. It was funny, and I had a helluva time convincing him he was
wrong. Jeez, I could have had cops crawling all over the place if
he'd started telling people I was growing weed.
I love cleome, it needs no special treatment and mine often reseeds
itself, altho I would prefer it do it in the garden and not in the
grass. I was transplanting little seedlings with a spoon from the
grass into the garden.
Nan in DE