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Screwpine in patio??

elizabethannebrownelizabethannebrown Posts: 14
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Hi everyone,

I have two of these in my patio and one in the soil in my front garden (which is now looking very big and healthy!). Assume planted by birds/wind. I am a kind of leave it and see type of gardener … but I am curious to know what these might be, Google says screwpine but that looks like a massive tropical tree!? I am in Bristol. 

Thank you. 
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  • elizabethannebrownelizabethannebrown Posts: 14
    edited October 2022
    here is the front garden one - apologies for lack of weeding!
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Hello Elizabeth, 
    You are right, it is something dropped from a bird feeder. I can't for the life of me remember the name, but it's best to get it out as soon as you can. It has extremely tough roots.
    Someone on here will know the proper name , it might be a type of millet.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Pandanus utilis - screwpine - is not hardy below below 10C so I very much doubt that is what you have.

    I think you need @Silver surfer on the case or maybe @nutcutlet who are both very good at identifying plants.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Let's hope it isn't Carex pendula.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    BobTheGardener said:
    Let's hope it isn't Carex pendula.
    But I think it is


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That was my thought @BobTheGardener, quite likely, I've got it here as well.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • elizabethannebrownelizabethannebrown Posts: 14
    Is scared pendula very bad?
  • elizabethannebrownelizabethannebrown Posts: 14
    Carex 😂 
  • elizabethannebrownelizabethannebrown Posts: 14
    I find the stacked (pineapple) leaves very interesting but will get rid of it of course if need be.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    elizabethannebrown said:
    I find the stacked (pineapple) leaves very interesting but will get rid of it of course if need be.
    It's a very attractive  plant but with ideas of world domination


    In the sticks near Peterborough
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