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Can you help ID these Plants Please?

AaronBilAaronBil Posts: 100
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1. Long leaves, I don’t think they’re linked.




2.These were meant to be calamagrostis Karl foerster but nope. Seed heads are very open compared to what was expected 


3. Bit of a jumble. One has nice white flowers which have done their thing and are going over. The other blue purple one looks a bit like a nettle but not sure.

second photo, some sort of weed,
same with 3rd photo and 4th is that white one going over again 




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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited June 2022
    Last but one photo is weed, some kind of thistle. The photo before it (the plant with the gone over seed heads) l would say is a weed but l can't recall the name of it.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Last group of photos.
    Photo 2 Kniphophia which needs deadheading. You have a weed in front of about the same height. Euphorbia [sap an irritant]behind then and assortment of weeds and seedlings which I cannot work out from photo. Dark leaves are the elder.

    3 thistle has to go and you will have more. You may have a kerria seeding too.
    The white plant looks like a Helianthemum if so dead head with shears.

    No Calamagrostis looks more like sedge than a grass.

    First photo leave for now could be Campanula or Aster.
    When you have a weed infested area it is a good idea to make a mental note of the weeds you remove as they will already have set seed from last year and they will be back. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I think I'd go with campanula too, for the narrow-leaved plant in the first photo.  Not strictly a weed though they do self-seed all over the place, if they like you.

    Sorry, don't know about the grass in the second photo.

    In the last group, first photo, the plant with the little blue flowers could be one of the speedwells.  There's also clover, growing through the plant with white flowers (which might not be a weed, but I can't think what it is!).

    Second photo is garlic mustard, the tall weed in front of the red-hot poker and next to the purple-leaved elder.

    Third photo is sow thistle, which isn't as bad as some thistles from the point of view of its roots, which don't go all that deep.  Seeds get everywhere though.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • AaronBilAaronBil Posts: 100
    Brilliant, thank you. The earth has been shading under an overgrown hedge for decades so lots of random weeds coming up.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Aaron 583 Won't be Helianthemum if in full shade of a hedge they like full sun. Take a look at Luzula Nivea for the sedge a long shot from the photo but you could look at the flower to see.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The tiny blue one could be Ground Ivy,  does it have heart shaped leaves? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    The small white flowers might be Sutera Cordata. They do well in shady sheltered spots.
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