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Weed ID please

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
I would like  to see if these weeds  are  keepers  before I dig them out.   :)
Ps.  I quite like  some  weeds.





Thanks in advance 
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Last one is Nipplewort (Lapsana communis.)  I seem to recognise the others but can't put a name to them at the mo.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    The top photo looks a bit like a type of Ragwort, but could be wrong though. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2018
    the worts will have to go!
    the middle one looks like it might be an immature number one
     Thanks for ID :)

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    I think I'd class the Spanish Bluebells as weeds!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2018
    Me too. I've been pulling off the leaves. I have I industrial quantities!
    I gave up trying to dig out the bulbs a couple of year ago, when I followed a  stem down to my elbow and still hadn't reached it :#
    I just chuck the bulbs if I come across them now, pull off the leaves as I see them and forget about them til next year.
    I'm sort of winning in that they're not increasing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Yes, been there, done that - just two days ago in fact! We planted lots of English bluebells last autumn and I don't want the existing Spanish ones hybridising with them. OH is under strict orders to pull the flowers off any Spanish ones when she wanders around the garden.

    I've chucked the pulled up leaves and stems on the compost heap but I do remember from a previous garden that they are apt to turn to slime fairly quickly so I need to mix some "brown" in there fairly soon.
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