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Can anyone help identify this please?

timmitesttubetimmitesttube Posts: 22
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Hello All! I've had hundreds of these little things germinating in one area of the garden - they form dense mats and I'm not sure what they are. I left them all alone to begin with because I thought they may be seedlings from the plants in that area, but they look nothing like any of them! I've just left a couple of clumps to see how they develop - any ideas as to what they may be - something exotic and exciting I expect... :-)
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It's a bit hard to tell as zooming in it's a bit out of focus, but I think I can see lots of little flower buds that remind me of forget-me-nots.
    My garden is covered in them in Spring.
    I pull them all up when they start to go over.



    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • timmitesttubetimmitesttube Posts: 22
    Thanks for that Pete - could be I guess... but the leaves look a bit too elongated on my little plants. I don't have forget me nots anywhere else in the garden so I'm a bit puzzled by the number of seedlings. Yours look great!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Are the leaves slightly silvery?  Could it be Snow in Summer … Cerastium tormentosum?

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





  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited April 2023
    Have trimmed image...hope this helps.
    Thinking.






    MYOSOTIS  SYLVATICA ..Forget me not



    CERASTIUM  TOMENTOSUM....  SNOW  IN  SUMMER 




    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • timmitesttubetimmitesttube Posts: 22

    Hello Dovefromabove! I've taken another closer picture - the leaves do have a silvery look, and water tends to bead up on them. But I don't have any of those Snow in Summer plants elsewhere - I know the seeds could have drifted in of course. Plants nearby are echinacia and scabious. And geum. Thyme too.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Looks like it is about to flower.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    For-get-me-not.  Perhaps fron one small plant last year.

    They take a long time to go over.  If you don't want a repeat, start now, and be thorough.  Or, lay back and enjoy.
     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."
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    I don't think it's 'proper' forget-me-not; I have loads  in my garden and it looks like a slightly weedier version. I pull it out all the time.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I agree with Loraine, I think it is a weed.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • timmitesttubetimmitesttube Posts: 22
    Thanks to everyone for their ideas. I'm going to let it grow and flower and perhaps I'll post another picture in a couple of weeks to see who was right!
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