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Can anyone identify these weeds/plants?

skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
edited June 2022 in Plants
Hi. I have tried to number them to make it slighly easier to reply.

1. Is some kind of rockery plant I guess.
2. Bulbs - for clarity they are quite small (bigger than a penny, smaller than a 2p)
3. Bulbs - Not sure if they are the same as 2, they are a different shape but found in same area.
4. This has grown about 30cm but not flowered. Not sure if it is a weed or come from wildflower seed mix I scattered last October (2021). First time I have seen it in this location - growing from a gap in flagstones. Have a few in the garden too - not sure whether I should pull them or wait to see what they turn into.
5. - On first look it looked a bit like that delightful Himalayan Balsam (eeek, check out my first post here last October). But I have pulled 70 of those out of the garden in the last couple of weeks and it is not that - roots are different.
6. Might actually be 5 but bigger. Not sure.
7. Is different than 6 though might look similar on the photo. It has tiny red things on the top - apologies as they look a bit blurry on the pic.
8. This seems to grow and spread really fast. Hope it is not another invasive. It is okay in the location where I have a big one (just started yellow flowering recently and bees like it). Though just pulled a tiny one that had just rooted with one flower from another area.
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    2 and 3 are corms, most likely crocus.
    4   corncockle.
    6 and 7 are willowherbs.
    8 is hypericum

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    1 is a Sedum of some kind
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    1 is one of the little spreading sedums - easily pulled up if it gets too big, but easy to grow and cheerful flowers (could be yellow, white or pink).  Good in a dry rock garden.

    5 is another willowherb, one of the annual ones.  

    8 is Hypericum androsaemum.  Really pretty, seeds around a bit, but easy to pull up.  Common name Tutsan.

    Agree with @fidgetbones about the rest.   :)

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
    fidgetbones said:
    2 and 3 are corms, most likely crocus.


    Interesting. Do you think they got choked out by grass and weeds?

    I found those in a shallow (approx 9cm deep) rockery that I recently stripped of the grass and weeds and raked through. Aparentley they have not flowered in years.

    Do you think they might possibly regrow if I put them back in?
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    You could put them in a pot of compost and see if they flower next spring, then plant them in the garden somewhere, perhaps.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    The corms could also be montbretia corms, hard to tell, except montbretia would be in leaf now if in the ground.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited June 2022
    1 looks like biting stonecrop/sedum acre.  Agree with @Busy-Lizzie about the corms but the only way to find out what they are and if they'll grow is to plant them in pots or in the ground and give them a good drink then see what happens.

    Willow herbs need pulling asap before they set seed and get everywhere.

    Hypericum can be a thug if it gets comfy and spreads.    The roots can be very dense and hard to dig up.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
    Obelixx said:


    Willow herbs need pulling asap before they set seed and get everywhere.


    Aren't some of them beautiful flowers? I had a quick google search, some actually look quite nice . . . .others not so much (too much green just for one top flower).

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're not for the average domestic garden. You'll have thousands of them if you let them seed everywhere, and they seed very very readily. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
    Fairygirl said:
    They're not for the average domestic garden. You'll have thousands of them if you let them seed everywhere, and they seed very very readily. 

    One cannot win. It seems things that you want to grow are difficult to grow (often not germinating, or taking 2 years or more - like Foxgloves). Yet other stuff just grows anywhere easily . . . . .
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