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Identification of some plants

GH36LONGH36LON Posts: 10
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Hi
Could anybody please help me to identify a few items growing in the beds of my garden? I wonder if some are just wild/weed type vegetation. I live on the edge of greenbelt and adjacent to grazing fields (a gardener once told me I would have difficulty controlling my lawns/beds as a result!)
I have attached some photos. So what are they? And what should I do to control them (one variety is a bulb which is growing everywhere!)
Thank you
Regards
Gerard

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    4941 are Bluebells,
    42, Lesser Celandine
    45 possibly Strawberries or close relative


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Agree with nut. 4943 & 45 look like wild strawberries.  The ones here are very invasive, travelling several feet along the edges of my bark paths each year.  Unfortunately, mine don't taste very nice and even the blackbird ignores them!
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    GH36LON said:
    And what should I do to control them (one variety is a bulb which is growing everywhere!)
    I would get rid of the (Spanish) bluebells as I think they're thugs. And they cross-pollinate with the much nicer English bluebells.

    Celandine I like - it can be invasive, but it does its thing and then vanishes for another nine months so I don't object to it. In fact I'm transplanting it around my new (to us) garden.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Not sure those are Spanish, rather than native, bluebells.  The leaves look quite narrow...  which is typical of the native sort.  If you have those, you're fortunate.  

    I like wild strawberries as ground cover in shade - and think they taste wonderful.  Each to his own.  And they are easy to pull out, being shallow rooted, if they wander inappropriately.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    If they are English then definitely don't pull 'em! But I felt they were still a little too big for English ones. Wait until they flower and then post a new picture and we can decide for sure.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Some wild strawberries or fraises des bois have a lovely flavour and others are very dull to tasteless.  If yours turn out to be the latter, at least you know you have the right conditions to grow the good ones - after you've weeded out all the duffers.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • RubyRossRubyRoss Posts: 124
    Definitely check the bluebells; the Spanish ones will take over a flower bed
  • GardenmaidenGardenmaiden Posts: 1,126
    You've also got a sea holly in 4943
  • GH36LONGH36LON Posts: 10
    I'd like to thank all for helping me. I shall wait until the bluebells flower but my suspicion is that they are Spanish variety. if so I will check them (they are rampant in another bed and will choke the daffodils). By the way, RubyRoss, what's the best way to check them? Just dig them out? Thanks G
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