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Are these weeds?

zenpmdzenpmd Posts: 28
in Plants
Would really appreciate some guidance as to what these plants are


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2018
    The photos not very clear, but the plant with the white flower buds looks like Arabis. 

    The  plant behind it could be an Echinops, but I can't see it clearly enough to be certain. 

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





  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I think the white flowered one is Iberis, the perennial candytuft.
    Could the frilly leaved ones possibly be carrots in their second year?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    re the carrots, I wonder if, being in the flower border, they are some other umbellifer


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • paul_in_surreypaul_in_surrey Posts: 239
    Wow, I try every time to guess the ID questions but so, so rarely get it right. But when I looked at the picture for the first time I thought that looks like a carrot gone to seed. So chuffed I'm at least in the same overgrown ballpark as the experts for once. Doesn't matter if it's right or not I just feel a tiny bit less stupid than normal.
    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2018
    Don't think it's carrot ... sorry Paul ...  ;)

    Looks a bit like this  https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/selinum-wallichianum/classid.2000007833/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIguSLmtDh2gIVRLHtCh0ZWAetEAAYASAAEgKFL_D_BwE

    The photo of the whole plant looks very much like the OP's photo.  

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





  • DimWitDimWit Posts: 553
    If it is selinum, the upper part of the floral stems should be purplish (according to the pictures, I've never seen this...).


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Or possibly a selinum cousin

    https://www.sarahraven.com/flowers/seeds/annuals/ammi_visnaga.htm

    Some of these appeared in my garden the other year ... no idea where from ... possibly from a bird feeder.  

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





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