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Plant ID please
SherwoodArrow
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Does anyone know what this is?
It’s growing in my bulb patch in the grass so I must have planted it!
The first photo shows it in the morning when the flowers are closed and the second is later in the day.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
It’s growing in my bulb patch in the grass so I must have planted it!
The first photo shows it in the morning when the flowers are closed and the second is later in the day.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Nottinghamshire.
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It does look pretty and does a sweet little trick opening and closing with sunlight.
Some have said it can be controlled by keeping other plants around it, in close proximity. In grass, I can see a future lot of trouble. I may be wrong though.
Watch out for the seeds and bulblets* getting transferred to places you don't want it, it can be a right PITA to get rid of!
I posted my trouble in removing them. We can't get 2,4-D or Agent Orange (for darn good reasons), so are left with glyphosate. I found the only real method of removal was to dig them up and remove the bulbs and rice grain-sized bulblets. Glyphosate application tended to cause the bulblets to come closer to the surface making life easier to dig them out.
We had these self seeded in our garden over time. We cleared everything with weedkiller and set about levelling the ground. In our "we'll use some of that soil over here to level it out" approach, we inadvertently transferred these things everywhere! Regular plastic woven weed liner hinders them a bit, but the shoots will come up through that and gravel. Underneath the liner, it looks like something from a sci-fi movie! We've pretty much eradicated them now, saw only one green shoot this year.
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