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Can anyone identify two plants please?

Johnny CrosbyJohnny Crosby Posts: 54
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My daughter has her first garden, and together we have identified a number of the plants which are showing in her border, the nicest of which is Chinodoxia, but there are two that we are unsure of. One may be a weed, but the shrub has been carefully pruned. I would be very grateful for your help in identifying them - she doesn’t want to be nurturing a weed!

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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Top picture:  are those leaves growing from the woody bare sticks?  It looks to me like sycamore which someone has kept cutting down and it's kept on sprouting.  If it is, you have three options:  carry on cutting down for ever.  If you'd like a big tree, and thousands of seedlings to deal with every spring, leave it be.  If not, dig it out before it gets any bigger.

    The bottom one looks to me like wild geranium.  A weed or a dainty wildflower depending on your taste.
  • jo4eyesjo4eyes Posts: 2,058
    2nd one is part of the hardy geranium family, probably Ragged Robin, which I suppose is  considered a weed in most gardens. If you look at the top of the picture next to the small pink flower there is a typical ‘cranes bill’ seed head, hence their other name. 

    1st one familiar too, but cannot remember at the mo. 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I thought sycamore for the first but now think it's a ribes, possibly flowering currant or a blackcurrant bush.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited April 2020
    Difficult to be sure.
    Cannot see leaves very clearly.
    I wonder if it is Ribes sanguineum?
    Best to know what plants are BEFORE you prune.
    You might just have pruned all the flowers off.






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  • Johnny CrosbyJohnny Crosby Posts: 54
    Thank you all for such quick answers. The bush was pruned by the previous tenants, presumably before winter, and appeared dead/dormant when my daughter moved in in January, so only the leaves are unfurling now. I guess the best thing would be to wait and see what else unfolds as the months go by.  It would be a bonus if it is something ornamental or fruitful - there is another one nearby, similarly pruned. If not, they will have to go, it is a very small garden.
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