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Tarmac plant ID please

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Could be even worse. People walk their dogs along this road on the way to the park.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    I thought yarrow.  Most likely a wildling.  Wait until it flowers.

    Not your wall, but whose land?  

    A solictor I know believed in direct action.  He even killed a neighbour's overhanging tree when the guy was on holiday.  But make sure you can't be seen or traced.

     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."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2023
    It's between someone's wall and the edge of the tarmac pavement. Never thought about who owns pavements🤔
    It seems happy there - unless the council sprays it. I don't want it. I just wondered what it was.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You can wait until it flowers,  but that’s much later,  the council may spray the verges before then.  It’s late summer flowering. 
    You could look out for tiny buds forming soon. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    Our council stopped spraying 2/3 years ago.
    Southampton 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    No spraying here either.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
     .come to think of it, I don't think they've done it here for a while either
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2023
    Passed by today and took a bit for a sniff.
    Definitely aromatic but I wouldn't call the smell unpleasant. Eucalyptus/ pine/ grass.
    It that what tansy smells like?
    PS leaves not right for achillea . They're flatter and softer.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I would say Tansy has a pungent smell. Just disturbing the leaves is enough.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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