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Plant ID

CompleterookieCompleterookie Posts: 130
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Are these weeds I need to worry about, If not what plants are they please. Thanks in advance 
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  • CompleterookieCompleterookie Posts: 130

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited February 2023
    Could be a foxglove.
    If the back of the new leaves feel soft and fury, then most likely a foxglove.
    If the back of the new leaves feel rough and spikey, then maybe alkanet

    Billericay - Essex

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They look like either Digitalis (foxgloves) or Verbascum (mullein) to me.  

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





  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Yes Digitalis may be too small to flower this year but you never know!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • CompleterookieCompleterookie Posts: 130
    Big thanks 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Mullein. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I think verbascum (mullein) too.  Not alkanet.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think Mullien leaves are more indented than Digitalis.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    The first pic does look like a Digitalis and the 2nd one a Mullein.  Alkanet tends to have tiny white spots on the leaf surface ( not always easy to see ) and not as "furry " as the other 2.  It also has quite obvious black roots.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Is it possible that the second one is frosted?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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