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Plant? ID

Brickman0430Brickman0430 Posts: 182
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Does anyone have any idea what this is? It’s popped up next to my aquilegia, but I don’t remember it being there last year.
Pat.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Alliaria petiolata, Jack by the Hedge and many other common names. Good food for Orange Yip larvae


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Brickman0430Brickman0430 Posts: 182
    Wow that was quick, thank you nutcutlet, I wonder where it came from? I’m guessing a present from a bird, or the Clampetts jungle next door, funny how their weeds spread into my garden, but never nice plants. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2018
    I wouldn't classify it as a 'nasty plant' ... it'll attract orange tip butterflies to your garden, and the leaves are edible ... good in sandwiches and salads ... said to be efficacious for sufferers of joint problems so that's most gardeners  ;)

    http://www.wildfooduk.com/hedgerow-food-guide/hedge-garlic-hedgerow/ 

    It's a biennial so it will have been there last year. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Brickman0430Brickman0430 Posts: 182
    Aaaah, it’s all coming back to me now, I had a small freebie pack of “wildflower mix “ seeds last year, and scattered a few on the beds, it certainly explains where all the foxgloves have come from too 😁 
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