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Vase shape plant with Beautiful Purple Flower Spikes

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Got one too , but what is it ?
by: Bill Vernon

Hello , I too have one of these tall spikey beautiful purple flowers . It sowed itself in early April this year up my allotment , next to the mint at the end of the bean trench . Nearly pulled it up but it was so strange i thought it would be good to find out what it matured into. If it is cut , i mix it with short lasting sweet peas , it will gradually turn to white flowers and become 'twisty twirley' as it follows the sun .It lasts well in a vase with about 3 to 4 weeks of life and changing the water, one bunch has lasted a dozen bunches of sweet peas ! Researched to the point of utter frustration as to finding what the *ell it is but would now come down to some form of 'Veronica' . Sorry no real name but if you do find out for certain what it is , please let me know so i can sleep properly again. The bees also love it so its good next to my runner beans as an attraction . I live in sunny Essex ans there are about 20 plotties up the allotment , no one else has it and no one else has seen it before and some of the ancient allotmenteers have never ever seen it before .Its a Mr.Ree to me .
I have this one too in Lynnwood - no idea, and would like to know more
by: Anonymous

I have this plant in my bed too - it came in as a hitchhiker in another potted perennial from the local Top Foods grocery. I'm kind of nervous about it, because the growth and self sowing went rampant in just 2 years, and I have just cut off the flower spikes because they are going to seed right now. The small round brown seed pods (1/4 inch wide, round along spike stem) where every flower was is *just cracking open at this point (end of 1st week of August). Each flower spike has at least 50 flowers with 50 of those little pods having about 10-20 seeds a piece, so again... I'm nervous about an invasion here. I'd really like to know what this plant is - the spikes get up to 5 ft tall in half shade near a cedar, and the leaves remind me of a Euphorbia type, but smaller and more delicate running upwards the length of the entire plant stem. This plant does not die back completely in winter - it yellows but does not freeze in Lynnwood, WA on an exposed, north facing bed at 800 ft elevation. The flower structure reminds me somewhat of a snapdragon but very definitely a lavender-ey purple packed spike with 50+ individual flowers per 2 ft spike length atop a 4-5 ft tall plant. ... Sure would like to know more... I'm saving the seeds for ID too...
Vase Shape plant
by: Susanne Inouye

I have two types of Sage in my garden. This one looks similar to my Queen Sage. My Russian sage may be taller. However I think it is some type of sage.

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