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Flower or weed?!!

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2018
    There's quite a few of us wild flower .......... welcome aboard  :)

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Welcome wildflower :D
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Robert EllerbyRobert Ellerby Posts: 14
    @wild flower - it most certainly does. Be interesting to see what it produces!
  • wild flowerwild flower Posts: 78
    Thanks all for the friendly welcome!   

    We need a 'like' button here methinks! 

    (Spot the emoticonaholic!)   




    A 'weed' is just a plant in the wrong place - subjective! ;)
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Leaves look too narrow to be evening primrose. It's leaves are a lot fatter in my garden.
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • wild flowerwild flower Posts: 78
    hogweed said:
    Leaves look too narrow to be evening primrose. It's leaves are a lot fatter in my garden.
    Is yours a cultivated variety of the evening primrose though?  A naturally occurring, wild one could have more narrow leaves.
    A 'weed' is just a plant in the wrong place - subjective! ;)
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    there are many species of oenothera. Oenothera versicolor has leaves like that. There's one grown as 'Sunset Boulevard'. If we used proper names we wouldn't think there was just one Evening Primrose


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    I have that one, nut, and it's a dead ringer for the OP's photo.  Also self-seeds around nicely but not troublesome in any way.  Grew a few from seed about 20 years ago and usually have 4 or 5 pop-up each year now with each lasting for 2-3 years.  Gorgeous fragrance - makes me think of late summer twilight.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think I've lost it Bob, I shall have to get some more


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    A weed is just a flower in the wrong place. Unless it's comfrey then in my garden it's a flipping pest 😉 
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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