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BurtsnestBurtsnest Posts: 174
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Good morning.  Could anyone identify this that has popped up hidden behind my English lavender please.. (Keeper or gonner)  Thanks in advance. 

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Carex pendula. a wild flower / weed which you should let seed at your peril
    Devon.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Crocosmia?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I would vote for Crocosmia BtheG but I'd be more bothered about the stickyweed? Sorry Galium something, nightmare.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • BurtsnestBurtsnest Posts: 174
    herbaceous said:
    but I'd be more bothered about the stickyweed? Sorry Galium something, nightmare.
    So that's what that is. Stickyweed, I'm constantly pulling up little ones .
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited June 2018
    It gets in my 'shrubbery' Burtsnest and winds everywhere, very tenuous connection to spreading fibrous roots so hard to pull up, has to be dug out and then I carefully inspect my trousers for the little sticky balls. You may have gathered I'm not keen on it   :/
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • BurtsnestBurtsnest Posts: 174
    Me neither herbaceous. Many a day including this morning I resemble a contortionst trying to climb into nooks and crannies trying to get it. At least I know what it is now thanks. 
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    My pleasure Burtsnest, not sure knowing what it is makes it any less annoying though  ;)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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