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Are these Chinese lanterns?

Bill_and_BenBill_and_Ben Posts: 161
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Someone gave me some Chinese lantern roots in summer 2020. They grew like crazy and took over a big space last year which I wasn't so keen on so I tried to dig them out. I now have some plants coming up in the this area and am not sure if these are Chinese lanterns or something else as I have sown various seeds in this bit of garden over the last 2 years. Anyone recognise these?

My location: Histon, near Cambridge, UK


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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Bill_and_Ben I think they could be they seed everywhere. A friend of mine loved to paint them so grew them next to a compost heap out of the way of other things.  
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    Don't think they are Chinese Lanterns, look very like Sweet Williams.
  • muckyhandsmikemuckyhandsmike Posts: 239
    I’m not sure what they are but I get them growing wild in my garden and regard them as weeds ....



  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They look a lot like one of the Willowherbs to me …

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





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    me too
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    are we looking at the large plants, or the germinating seeds?


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    These are Sweet Williams so don't look like those


    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    These are physalis seedlings


  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    The second photo definitely looks like willowherb to me as well. As @Lyn says Physalis leaves are a different shape.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Definitely willow herb. 
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