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Plant ID needed, please!

zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
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Very strawberry like but wasn’t sure if they were actually strawberries! Weren’t planted by me and there’s a lot of weeds in the garden so I would be grateful for an ID, please!


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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hello zugenie. Your plants are definitely strawberries - possibly the wild ones if they are small plants. Mine seed all over the place but have a fantastic flavour.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Might it be a wild strawberry Zugenie or even a cultivated one from a seed deposited by a bird.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    Thank you both! Rare to find something that’s actually nice in this garden!!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some taste good, I've heard. The ones in my garden are tasteless  and are a  PITA weed that gets into the middle of perennials and is an absolute bggggr to get out.
    Have a taste of yours and see which kind you have before you give it free rein @zugenie
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I have tried some wild ones,  a very intense strawberry taste yum!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Yes we have them all over our garden and must be birds that delivered the seeds!
    However we have never felt confident about eating the small fruits but what you are all saying maybe we should.
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Absolutely they are delicious 
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Yes strawberries, they look exactly like my wild ones.
    There is nothing you can confuse them with, possibly the blind strawberry but it's not harmful just tasteless
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