I,m not sure about the plants but dried chilli flakes certainly stopped our resident rabbit population unearthing my bedding plants out of the pots.......

Thank you - good tip! We've got lots of logs from where the landlord chopped a couple of trees down, so I'm raising the pots up on logs which will hopefully make them too high for the rabbits to chew what's left. I would love to think that this flourishing plant is worth keeping!

I don't know what it is but there's no need to uproot it just in case someone might call it a weed. Why not wait and see what it does? If you're worried about it spreading you can always cut the flowers off before they set seed - or if you don't like them pull it up then. After all, whether its worth keeping depends on whether you like it and not on anything else. A friend of mine in Stafford has planted pink campion on purpose. Round here its rampant on every bankside and no one would dream of planting it on purpose.

Oh I agree, weeds are only wild flowers in an unwanted position. There's no sign of any flowers yet, just lots of growth - but as long as it's not a triffid I should be OK!

I have just had a similar experience with what turned out to be a very beautiful biennial Honesty! I had only known the annual before. Thank goodness I left it - it's lovely! Whatever you've got there, it's a great shape! Let us know if you find out what it is, won't you?

I'll keep you posted, thank you.

Hello and welcome to Goy Niftyknits not sure leaves look a bit like hollyhock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hollyhock.JPG

Yes leave untill it blooms it may even be a weed but a nice flower.

Oh I REALLY hope so! Thank you, it does look similar. Hollyhock was one of my thoughts too, but I'd discounted it because of lack of flower spikes - maybe it's too early yet? Fingers crossed, and thanks for the warm and helpful welcome everyone!

Hi niftyknits, I enjoy knitting but your profile doesn't say what you knit although your avatar looks fun....welcome to Goy

hi Pam - I didn't put any detail in my profile because I sell my knits and I thought it'd look spammy. Mostly I design and knit meerkats in fun costumes, nothing to do with a certain TV advert - I started before them!

I've got a couple of hollyhocks this year (first time) and they don't have any flower spikes yet. So perhaps you'll be lucky!

Oh that's good news - fingers crossed then.