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2 more plants I can't recognise

Badly_MaintainedBadly_Maintained Posts: 114
in Problem solving
Hello all,

I planted/sowed winter aconite and cowslips seeds in a pot.  Two other plants seem to have grown instead.  The first one has tiny white flowers, and has recently developed what look like seed pods.  Below are photos of the flowers and of the "seed pods".

The other unidentified plant which grew is shown in the photograph below.
Thank-you in advance if anyone is able to identify these two plants.
"If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I think-
    watercress
    self-heal (possibly)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I agree. Bittercress and Prunella [self heal]
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The one with white flowers is Hairy Bittercress ... a PITA in many gardens (especially in my containers) ... weed them out before those seedpods pop open!!!  

    The second is Prunella vulgaris aka Selfheal ... a wildflower that often makes itsef at home in damp lawns ... bees love the flowers and I'm happy to see it in my grass but then my grass isn't what many folk would call a proper lawn. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've just noticed Pete said watercress. I presume he meant bittercress  ;)
    Easy to pull out. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    oops :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    To be fair - they're not totally dissimilar @Pete.8. I have lots of both   ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Badly_MaintainedBadly_Maintained Posts: 114
    Thank-you all for your wisdom and help.
    "If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Self heal is wonderful! You  an make a tincture with the flowers and use it for those garden scrapes! And it's very pretty!
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