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  • emma-normanemma-norman Posts: 7
    Dovefromabove said:
    By 'fireweed' do you mean this ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaenerion_angustifolium  often called Willowherb (there's several plants known as 'fireweed' ... that's why a lot of us try to use the latin names as well).  

    Anyway, if that's what you mean, no it's not that ... 
    Yes, this is the one I was thinking of. How can you be sure it’s not? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I know what the various Willowherbs look like. That isn’t any of them. 😊 

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





  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I moved some peonies in 2019. Last year I carefully moved some random shoots in the old bed,  that I thought were from small missed rhizomes and replanted them carefully with the other peonies.
    They all turned out to be Rosebay! They are very, very similar at that stage, but the giveaway will be if there is a long white root. Peonies don;t have that :)
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I agree, more investigation needed - try digging one up and seeing what the roots are like.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I've never yet mistaken a willowherb for a paeony ... there may be a first time ... we shall see ...  ;)

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





  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I don't think they're either of those and could even be shoots from the roots of trees or removed shrubs.  Until we see the roots, only time will tell.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • emma-normanemma-norman Posts: 7
    BobTheGardener said:
    I agree, more investigation needed - try digging one up and seeing what the roots are like.
    I’ve had a look at the roots and the fresh growth seems to be popping up evenly spaced out along one long root. Sometimes in groups or clusters but always joined together with a long root and lots of pink shoots coming through above the soil. I’ve been pulling it out because there is so much of it. I’ll try to get a picture
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2021
    Sounds like suckers from a tree root ... is there  or was there a Rhus typhina in the vicinity (aka Stag's Horn Sumach)?

    https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/rhus-typhina/classid.4323/

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





  • emma-normanemma-norman Posts: 7
    Dovefromabove said:
    Sounds like suckers from a tree root ... is there  or was there a Rhus typhina in the vicinity (aka Stag's Horn Sumach)?

    https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/rhus-typhina/classid.4323/
    No nothing like that near by. Also it’s abandoned land which hasn’t been planted on by hand for 80+ years 
  • MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949
    I agree with Peony, mine looks just like that at the moment.
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