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B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I thought ot might be a fern at  first  but now I've  taken a photo,  it looks a bit like an achillea . Can anyone identify it for me  and tell  me if it's  worth/ possible to rescue it?

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Looks like an achillea seedling do you grow them @B3?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Achillea leaves can be delicately scented so it's worth crushing a small section to see if that's what you've got @B3.  I had a few growing in my garden last year and am still finding seedlings so they're quite determined!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Have a look at the back of the leaves. If there's rows of brown spots they are spores and it's a fern. 
     
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have grown them but they're out the back. This one is in the street outside our house. I might have a look and see if I can get it out - if it ever stops raining.
    Thanks all😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I agree - achillea. I 'rescued' a white one last year that I think is the wild variety - the type that grow in lawns and verges.
    It has spread a lot and flowered for ages, but it's very gangly and the cultivated plants  have much better and bigger flowers.

    Billericay - Essex

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited November 2022
    Might it be a Welsh Poppy.  They grow readily from seed.  Their leaves are feathery, but perhaps not as much as the pic.
     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."
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    agree Achillea, certainly not a fern or a poppy (of any sort)



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited November 2022
    @B3 Yes there is a wild one which you wouldn't want to grow. Don't know if they come true from seed? I would remove it gently. If you don't get all the root still worth a try.. 
    Difficult to place in a border as the colour of the flower does change from bud to full bloom. Reds often finish up as pinks.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    edited November 2022
    I would have thought it's Tansy, not fine enough for Achillia

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited November 2022
    That would be interesting @Loraine3. Who knows
    I have a laissez -faire garden. I'm only the referee. Whatever colour is fine - apart from bright yellow against Barbie pink. @GardenerSuze
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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