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What plant is this please?

ClairieCClairieC Posts: 16

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It looks like a Miscanthus of some kind, but is it indoors?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ClairieCClairieC Posts: 16
    It was growing outside wild 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If it's growing wild, you can't dig it up and remove it though. It's illegal. 

    However, if it's a Miscanthus, it won't be wild, it'll have escaped from a garden. I don't grow them now, and I can't see it well enough to ID, but someone else might.

    It may be something entirely different though. The photo isn't clear enough as it doesn't show enough of  the plant. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I saw a load of those growing beside the dykes in Lincolnshire  a few years ago.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Carex riparia?  The Great Pond Sedge?  Grows wild all over the Fens, the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads and alongside almost every lowland river, stream, ditch and dyke in the UK.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It looks like they can spare a bit,then.😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    edited August 2020
    Those grow along the dyke here too. I hope for your sake it doesn't get to seed into your borders, they grow the deepest roots ever and are nigh on impossible to remove. I fight to keep them back out of our garden.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    It's common reed, Phragmites australis I think.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
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