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Name that plant! What is this?

hatty_hatty_ Posts: 99
in Problem solving
Hi everyone!

Anyone know what this is that has popped up in my garden?

I am stumped. It looks like a sort of succulent? Leaves are thick and triangular with slightly serrated edges. 


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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I get it too and it's not welcome.
    I think it's some sort of sedge - no idea where it comes from, but it ends up in my green bin.

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • AndyDeanAndyDean Posts: 157
    Looks like the foliage of my my red hot pokers...
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Looks very much like Carex pendula which, if that is what it is, is a real seed weed.
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    Yep that's pendulous sedge (love that name). It's a weed, but it does grow into really beautiful, arched strappy foliage and has long seed stems in spring/early summer. I really like it and grow it (in a pot, because it gets huge) alongside hostas and ferns as a woodland transition. 
  • hatty_hatty_ Posts: 99
    Thank you all very much! The mystery has been solved. Love the name pendulous sedge!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Just keep it in a pot and don’t let it seed anywhere ... and watch out for it rooting through the pot, into the soil below and/or cracking the pot and escaping ...

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





  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    Dovefromabove said:
    Just keep it in a pot and don’t let it seed anywhere ... and watch out for it rooting through the pot, into the soil below and/or cracking the pot and escaping ...
    Now there's a mental image @Dovefromabove ...


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