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What weed with a rhizome type root

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Just re read this thread. If the leaves are furled I do think Arum is more likely.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Buttercupdays said:
    Buttercups are special! :)
    Sorry @Buttercupdays!  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Celandines grow from tiny round bulbils which look like pills of soil and are a nightmare to get rid of.
    My first thought was dandelions?
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Sounds to me like a dead-nettley sort of thing.

    If a weed, careful and continual forking out should be the answer.  If in doubt, replant in an out-of-the-way spot and observe.
     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."
  • FledglingCottageGardenerFledglingCottageGardener Posts: 26
    Thank you so much everybody. I really appreciate you trying to ID my plant despite me not providing a photo!

    I am incredibly grateful that @nutcutlet and others identified Arum Maculatum. That is definitely what it is as I remember seeing the berries in the garden when we moved in.

    Thank you very much indeed.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    They're more a minor nuisance rather than a nightmare - definitely not worth losing any sleep over!
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited January 2023
    I encourage wild Arum in my dry, shady, acid, wild garden.  Little else flourishes.  Every now and again, I dig it up and spread the tubers.  (The badger helps.). I've added some of the variegated version (italicum pictum) which has a longer season and is currently contributing a lot, whilst maculatum remains dormant.

    I have a good form and one less good that I bought cheaply.  Note, always buy the best.

    I'll try to take a Pic next time the weather lets up.
     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."
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    Joyce Goldenlily said:
    Celandines grow from tiny round bulbils which look like pills of soil and are a nightmare to get rid of.
    My first thought was dandelions?
    I love celandines!
    They are wonderful and colourful for a relatively short time and then they vanish till next year.
    Why would you want to get rid of them!!!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I love to see them smile up at me in the February sunshine … sooo looking forward to seeing them ☀️ 

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





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