Help with identification pleeese

Mokles · May 2020

Can anyone help me with identifying a couple of different plants please? The first picture has a small plant with a serated edged leaf and a larger specimen is above it.

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This second photo has two large plants which I transplanted last year thinking they were foxgloves - they've survived the winter and are obviously not foxgloves. The larger one is almost 3ft now.

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Asarum · May 2020

1. Tree seedlings or suckers, probably some sort of prunus.
2. Er, yes those are foxgloves 😀

Mokles · May 2020

Thank you.

Foxgloves? Really? But they're monsters!!

Asarum · May 2020

Yes, they can get up to 5 feet.

https://norfolktalesmyths.com/2019/07/26/foxgloves-beauty-and-danger/

Mokles · May 2020

Re the prunus - I think I know what they are then. On the estate where we live there are some large cherry trees and the birds sit on our roof eating the fruit, the stones roll down, hit the conservatory roof and we have dozens on the patio which we sweep up, but obviously some have landed in the borders. Thank you again -I'll dig them up now!

dave125 · May 2020

Asarum said:

Yes, they can get up to 5 feet.

They can get much taller than that;
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1030743/mines-massive-tallest-foxglove-update

catherine172 · May 2020

oops I thought one was a blackberry...

Help with identification pleeese

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