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Spurge or sweet woodruff seedlings?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Inhospitable spot under a tree. Geranium sanguineum was winning the battle before the drought anyway . 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    I have / had a really large patch of sweet woodruff in my woodland border. All I've been able to see since August is a carpet of dried up yellow stems. Last week, however, I noticed a couple of small green patches which have sprung up since we had some rain. I suspect my huge patch will be several much smaller patches next year but, hopefully, if we have enough rain they'll eventually join up again.

    I'm not sure what your seedlings are (other than the bluish one which I agree is spurge) but they look a little like chickweed. I have that literally all over the garden this year inplaces where I've never seen it before. Goodness only knows where it's all come from, but it's survived and thrived in the drought and I'll probably be doing battle for years to come. Pesky little weed. 
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think the soil is too poor for chickweed. We had it in our old garden not far from here where the soil was very fertile.. Time will tell. I let the wulfinii stay where I want it but most gets pulled out. If the woodruff doesn't come back, I might be glad of it😒 @Topbird
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Yep, annual spurge (although there's also a Euphorbia characias seedling in the background)
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Update. 
    It's obvious now that most of them were, indeed, spurge but there are one or two sweet woodruff so it's a hand weeding job unfortunately.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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