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Please can you help a new gardener identify these plants?

amandataylor6amandataylor6 Posts: 11
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I am so appreciative of the help I have received on this forum. As spring is settling in so many plants are popping up in my new garden and I have no idea what they are or how to take care of these?



Sorry this photo has turned and I can not rotate it. It’s the blue flowers. They have long thin leaves. I love them and would like to get more. The head had many buds which have opened from the bottom up.



This one is spreading fast over many of my plants. Not sure what it is. Is it a weed to be pulled out or a plant to be cut back.



I think this is the same plant but you can see how it is climbing over all my plants.



This shows a close up of the leaves. 



And lastly does anyone know what this plant is and what I should do with it?

Thank you for your help.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2023
    1 Camassia (lovely but I find they have a very short flowering period)

    2 & 3 are hardy geraniums. They’ll flower before long … and usually  have a long flowering period … after that you can cut them hard back which will help you control them. They’ll then have a second flush of leaves, and maybe flowers too. 

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    By the way, if you slightly reduce the size of the pics before posting them they’ll be the right way up. It’s a glitch on the site I’m afraid. 

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





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited April 2023
    I think the first one (blue flowers) is Camassia.
    If you resize the photos (smaller) before posting they come out the right way up. A very long standing Forum glitch.
  • amandataylor6amandataylor6 Posts: 11

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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    The blue ones are Camassias. They grow from bulbs (plant  in Autumn) and then come up every year. You can buy tall ones and short ones and the also come in white.
    The second pic looks like hardy Geranium magnificum. It has lovely purply blue flowers in early summer which last for a couple of weeks, then is just ground cover. It is quite vigorous, but easy enough to control.
    The same cannot be said for the multi fingered beasty in the next pictures which looks like Ground Elder, which is a demon and will take real determination to manage. It has long, white roots which travel underground, sprouting new plants along the way. It is an umbellifer that has pretty white flowers, but whatever you do don't let it seed or it will spread that way too. It invades other plants as the pictures show, which makes it nearly impossible to treat with weedkillers even if you were prepared to do so. It is possible to dig it out but you must try to remove even the tiniest bits of root or they will regrow. On otherwise bare ground you can kill it by excluding light, but if it gets in amongst plants in a border you may have to dig them up too in order to separate the roots, before replanting. If your garden is small enough and you are persistent enough you might have a chance of winning. My garden is very large and I have to be content with removing the flowering stems and clearing the most important areas as often as I can. In a couple of hours I can easily fill several sacks with those roots, from a relatively small piece of land!
    The last pic   with ferny leaves may be Nigella, a hardy annual with pretty blue flowers which self seeds, but I'm not 100% sure as I've not grown it.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I do think you have a bad infestation of ground elder in your garden. It marches it's way through everything. Not good with computers but @RBManc posted on the 13th April on this subject.  Ground Elder.
    I also agree with Camassi cusickii , Geranium magnificum and Nigella seedlings, very pretty including the seedheads. They will seed around.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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