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Plant ID please

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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    They’re gone now @BobTheGardener Whatever it was it had roots all along the base of the wall and had two new plants growing from them. 


  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'm pretty confident it was Snowberry. I've dug up so much of that stuff and it still keeps reappearing.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    @JennyJ Is it easy to spot and get out when it’s small? 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited April 2021
    It's easy to spot when you know what it looks like! I'll try and remember to take a picture next time I see one. Maybe that'll put a jinx on it and it won't come back now :D.
    Not so easy to get out though because even with fairly careful digging I find the shoots tend to break off. There's probably a huge network of deep underground roots going on in my garden :(. If I were more patient I'd resort to glyphosate and hope it takes the lot out eventually, but so far I just dig out what I can when I see it.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    JamesS-B said:
    They’re gone now @BobTheGardener Whatever it was it had roots all along the base of the wall and had two new plants growing from them. 


    I thought snowberry too, until I spotted the leaf growth.  They didn't look very interesting anyway, whatever they were! :D
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    @BobTheGardener Yeah I agree.  There was nothing of interest in front or back garden when we moved in two weeks ago.  I have a blank but neglected canvas to work on.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited April 2021
    Snowberry rogues gallery
    One growing from under next door's new fence which I will treat with weed-killer because they've had hard landscaping laid on their side and I think the roots are probably under it (I also need to gradually raise my soil level to cover the untidy propping-up of the concrete gravel board. There's a natural dip in the ground level here which they've obviously made up on their side to have the fence level). The other coming up in a nice clump of geranium Ann Folkard which I think also might be best carefully weedkillered (the snowberry not the geranium).
           
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Thanks @JennyJ

    I’ve just been pottering in the back garden and spotted some creeping under the hedge. It is obviously prolific here. 


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