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Am I being kind to weeds or are they plants
I have a new Poundland near me and this winter/spring picked up random packets of bulbs seeds and corms. I weed my pots and beds regularly as birds tend to deposit random seeds as they eat on my fence and I bought bad topsoil to fill raised beds that I made which led to a huge influx of weeds. Now I have plants growing and leaves poking out and I’m afraid to weed them as I did this to my spring bulbs when I was first a home and garden owner and my irises never have come back they’ve been blind every year since with pokey leaves but no flower. My fingers are crossed for a bloom
this year. So my question is am I minding weeds carefully or am I the owner of plants. I usually know the name of every plant in my garden so the randomness of this is frustrating
pic 1 is from a raised bed. It’s a delicate trailing plant that popped up where my delphinium should be coming but slugs destroyed it (ignore the allium
leaves around it)
I thought pic 2 were doc leaves! Massive leaves growing where birds often sit so could be a seed that became a weed. Also is the frond like leaf at the back right poking out a weed too it never comes to anything anymore but think I’ve seen it elsewhere with pink flowers)
pic 3 is the weed I’m always picking which brings me to the last 2 pictures - I almost picked them as weeds today in huge shock at how big the so allied weed had been allowed to become in a pot off my patio but I think I planted sunflowers there and have a vague recollection that sunflower leaves are quite weed like! Any ideas what it could be?!
finally, I bought a fantastic clematis only for it to be eaten down to nothing by slugs, I picked the root ball up and put it in a pot, will this have any chance of recovery? If only I could convince the birds to swap seeds for slugs I wouldn’t be half as confused about my garden!
Thanks in advance for any assistance!!
this year. So my question is am I minding weeds carefully or am I the owner of plants. I usually know the name of every plant in my garden so the randomness of this is frustrating
pic 1 is from a raised bed. It’s a delicate trailing plant that popped up where my delphinium should be coming but slugs destroyed it (ignore the allium
leaves around it)
I thought pic 2 were doc leaves! Massive leaves growing where birds often sit so could be a seed that became a weed. Also is the frond like leaf at the back right poking out a weed too it never comes to anything anymore but think I’ve seen it elsewhere with pink flowers)
pic 3 is the weed I’m always picking which brings me to the last 2 pictures - I almost picked them as weeds today in huge shock at how big the so allied weed had been allowed to become in a pot off my patio but I think I planted sunflowers there and have a vague recollection that sunflower leaves are quite weed like! Any ideas what it could be?!
finally, I bought a fantastic clematis only for it to be eaten down to nothing by slugs, I picked the root ball up and put it in a pot, will this have any chance of recovery? If only I could convince the birds to swap seeds for slugs I wouldn’t be half as confused about my garden!
Thanks in advance for any assistance!!
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