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MessynessyMessynessy Posts: 81
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I’m guessing this is a weed as it’s just popped up from nowhere. Can anyone tell me what it is please?
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Looks like a fuchsia but you’d know it you planted one of those? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I agree, fuschia  :)
  • MessynessyMessynessy Posts: 81
    Is there any chance fuschia could self seed? I have a few dotted around my garden but I haven’t planted one there. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Messynessy I have never known them self seed. I also think it is a fuschia.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    Fuchsias self seed in my brick paved driveway.
  • MessynessyMessynessy Posts: 81
    Thank you everyone. Hopefully there’s still time for it to flower this year so I can find out for certain. I won’t be digging it up today!
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    If there are no flower buds showing now, your "fuchsia" is unlkely to flower this year.  But depending on your local climate, it might flower next year.  Might be worth taking a few cuttings to over-winter indoors.

    Not many people know thta fuchsia fruit are edible. A party trick of mine is to pick a fruit off a plant and eat it, to my guests' horror.  I am workong my way through a number of cultivars to find the most tasty.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I agree too, it looks like a fuchsia.
    I read somewhere that the fruits were edible but not tasty enough to bother with.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Kate 7 I have never known them set seed very interesting. Personally not something I want to grow, so perhaps I simply haven't taken enough interest and why I always forget how to spell fuchsia!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Red mapleRed maple Posts: 1,138
    Yes, I agree, it looks like a fuschia.
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