By Alextb
London,
England 
ID please.
I asked what this was in the Summer when it was smaller, but nobody seemed to have a definitive answer.
The plant has grown a lot and bcome bushier, and is now getting ready to flower, so I thought I would try again.
2 Oct, 2011
Answers
I agree, Mirabilis jalapa
2 Oct, 2011
Double post again!! Derrr...
2 Oct, 2011
Thank you Bamboo and Beattie
Is it a plant or a weed?
I don't mean weed as in plant in the wrong plcae, I mean is it a pest or will it behave?
2 Oct, 2011
I have just had a look on google and your ID seems to be spot on.
Thanks again.
2 Oct, 2011
It'll keel over in the winter, Alex...
2 Oct, 2011
It's a lovely plant. It's rather tender but technically a perennial. Grows easily from seed (big black things - you won't miss them when they appear) and the plants also produce a tuberous root that you could try digging up at the beginning of winter, store frost free and start into growth again in spring (treat it like a dahlia tuber).
They also come in eye-popping pink, yellow, splashed and striped with colour.
2 Oct, 2011
I will dig it up and colelct the seeds. May try and grow some in any large bare patches that I have trouble growing other things in.
2 Oct, 2011
Thank you.
2 Oct, 2011
You're welcome :-)
2 Oct, 2011
Mirabilis jalapa?
2 Oct, 2011