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Can anyone identify This?

charly.haddow86charly.haddow86 Posts: 2
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Hi,could anyone identify this plant for me? I set some seeds and carefully wrote labels and stuck them on the trays but they faded and fell off so I have no idea what this plant is. I've managed to identify the rest of them but unfortunately I threw the packets away when I sowed them. 
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  • NanniemoNanniemo Posts: 226
    Looks a bit like my poached egg plant seedlings - Limnanthes douglassii.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    If they are, they'll spread like wildfire if you let them set seed.
  • NanniemoNanniemo Posts: 226
    Yes, but they’re easily pulled up & I like them.
  • charly.haddow86charly.haddow86 Posts: 2
    Thank you. Poached egg plants were one of the ones we set. 
    From memory we sowed
    Sweetpeas
    poached eggs
    marigolds
    Livingstone daisy
    hollyhocks
    morning glory
    cornflowers
    Lobelia
    Nasturtium
    tomatoes and peppers. 


    I have now learnt my lesson and ive bought some proper stake labels and marker pen.
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    I use black labels and a white pen - stays clear for years, even after winter rain :)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s got to be those then, nothing on your list other that Poached eggs would look like that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Janet523Janet523 Posts: 18
    I agree with poached egg plant, they look exactly like the seedlings I have growing
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Nanniemo said:
    Yes, but they’re easily pulled up & I like them.
    We liked them too, and they're great for insects, but they were taking over a (heavy clay) bed and it took two or three years to get rid of them.
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    It's always the way Hazel 1. Didn't perform well at all last year, so I ripped them up mid-summer and in January this year, they have self-seeded themselves everywhere and they are far more advanced than those ones in the pictures. 
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    I grew them last year but they all died after planting out in the garden.   I can recall someone else had the same problem.   I'm growing the white ones this year .....hopefully these will take 
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