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To pull or not to pull - that is the question? Weed/plant ID.

skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
in Wildlife gardening
Hi.

I presume this is some kind of weed that I should pull out? First found it in the crazy paving and rockery. So nothing I seeded (made an attempt at wildflower garden 2 by seeding last October)

I then noticed quite a lot of them in a nearby park I was walking through.

Anyone able to id and confirm I should pull them out pronto . . . 


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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It looks like a sycamore seedling. Our garden is full of them from neighbour's tree. There are a lot about this year. There have been other posts about them on this site.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Could it be an ash seedling? We have many ashes near us and we are forever pulling up the seedlings.
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Get rid it’s a sycamore seed ,unless you want a sycamore tree of course .
  • skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
    Busy-Lizzie said:
    It looks like a sycamore seedling. Our garden is full of them from neighbour's tree. There are a lot about this year. There have been other posts about them on this site.
    Why are there so many sycamores about? There are loads of them in other parts of the garden - and as I said I walked across the grass in a nearby park and that was also full of sycamore seedlings.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Could it have been the baking hot, dry summer? 

    Don’t they go mad seed-wise when they feel threatened or vulnerable/sick? 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I’ve been out this evening and pulled 97 of them, most with true leaves. 

    I sucked up a whole garden vac’s worth of seeds in winter and there’s probably another bag’s worth out there. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Either the conditions were really good  or they are panicking. I once had a rose bush that produced an amazing amount of blooms and then died.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • skankinpickleskankinpickle Posts: 119
    TheGreenMan said:
    Could it have been the baking hot, dry summer? 

    Don’t they go mad seed-wise when they feel threatened or vulnerable/sick? 
    Not up here. As usual the summer was crap - apart from the 3 days of the "heatwave" and even that was split into 2 parts. 
  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    Google images: 'Sycamore seedling'.
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Get rid! sycamore seeds are designed to carry in the wind. I've worked in a garden today where there were hundreds of them spread out across a large garden.  The sycamore tree is in the next door garden on the far side.  All large properties. The seeds travel far and set root where they land!
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