By Meadowland
Monmouthshire ,
United Kingdom 
This is growing at the base of my Salvia Hotlips which is looking very bare except for a few leaves. I'm hoping this is part of the shrub...could anyone identify the leaves please.they do look a littlelike Beech.On rubbing there isn't the familiar sage smell that Salvias have.
3 Apr, 2023
Answers
Moi aussi!
3 Apr, 2023
No need to fret, my Hot Lips has become a foxglove :-)
4 Apr, 2023
my royal bumble developed into a sycamore. blinking self sown seeds. both now out as salvia didn't come through.
4 Apr, 2023
I'd leave it until all risk of frost has gone then cut it back to the live stuff. It was -2 here first thing on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. Leave the dead stems as they will offer some protection.
4 Apr, 2023
looks like beech to me I am afraid.
3 Apr, 2023