This was bought as a hollyhock.

Do you belong to the RHS? If you do they will identify it for you so you will have the right answer!

shysal we have foxgloves coming out of our ears! Pink and white. If you would like some please pm me

Shysal Thank you for the link to the Flymo. Mine arrived today.

my app says Garlic mustard.

It looks a bit like Mint that has gone to flower

shysal
We're all agog!
I hope the flowers come out soon and we can make a decision

ukcarolm my latest search found mustard plant to be similar but the flowers seem to always be white or yellow and mine is lilac.

Lewie, many thanks for the offer but I have bought enough. I know most of them won't come again next year despite allowing to dry and spreading the seeds.

It's Valerian - otherwise known as Catnip!

That isn't valerian - I can provide anyone who wants some with valerian we have tone.

The leaf stalks are now red with a single groove down them containing a light stripe! Leaves about the size of a saucer.
Going to look up Angelica which has a square stem I think.

Catnip and Valerian are two different plants. Catnip has purple flowers and Valerian has pink flowers. Cats like them both.

Definitely not Bear's Breeches - I have that in two slightly different varieties and the flowers come on a tall stem not close to the base

Shysal any more news on this plant?

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I still haven't identified this plant. It has grown taller, but the other two with the same leaves have no flower heads.

T looks like a type of Eupatorium, known as Joe Pie Weed. Most varieties are tall, but there is a little Joe.
Not a weed in the Uk, but known as one in the USA.

Could it be a Butterbur?

Pictures here

One thing's for sure - it's not a hollyhock!

Nope. Flowers are wrong for butternut, and leaves wrong for eupatorium which flowers in late summer.

Flowers look like Valeriana officinalis, but the leaves are different. Do please update us, I am intrigued.

Butterbur - not butternut shysal although that could just have been a typo.

Typo or autocorrect, Pippa!

The machines are taking over - and so are the plants apparently. Quick thought, does anyone know what a young triffid looks like?

UPDATE. Thanks to Shrub I have identified the plant as Valerian Pyrenaica. This on line picture of the leaf stalk clinched it. Apologies to those who also suggested Valerian, it doesn't match the usual varieties. I have enjoyed the plant, which is now spreading fluffy seeds, so may have more next year. Many thanks for all the suggestions.
www.bethchatto.co.uk/conditions/plants-for-general-conditions/valeriana-pyrenaica.htm

That’s great shysal I’m glad we got there in the end! I just wish I could grow it in my garden.