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Oh dear, I've cultivated a weed!

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  • NutcrackerSouthSomersetNutcrackerSouthSomerset Posts: 143
    Wood Avens; weed.Don't let them seed whatever you do. Roots go down to Australia!
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Thanks @Nutcracker, l had a feeling l was giving tlc to something "not quite right"! No more loving for these!
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    In your defence, wood avens is in fact a geum - albeit a wild one...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Earthling850Earthling850 Posts: 10
    I did the reverse, Annie.  On a recent weed-fest, I dug up and got rid of some perfectly healthy geums I'd planted the year before thinking they were weeds.   It's certainly a learning curve, this gardening lark, isn't it?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've found that if a seedling grows fast and is ridiculously lush and healthy - it's a weed.
    I still get caught every time.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2018
    Annie, Geum urbanum pita
     :( 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    They look like Geum urbanum (the weedy one) unfortunately, AnniD.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Story of my life ! Never mind, they are now in the green waste bin. You live and learn !
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've got a bit of a dilemma with my weed as it would leave a biggish hole in my main border if I dig it out - could I cheat and just cut off the flowers prior to our Open Days,
    do you think anybody would notice....?!!!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    It's a wildflower - completely deliberate. Very Chelsea, dontcha know  :)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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