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What is this ‘weed’ it has popped up everywhere this year and I am reluctant to pull it up..

ObsessedPlantswomanObsessedPlantswoman Posts: 69
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Because it looks so much like a cosmos...even though I know I haven’t planted cosmos, we can hope!!

its too late for camomile as that is flowering tall at the moment. Anyone any ideas?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    Chamomile?  Or one of the ‘wilder’ versions like Stinking Mayweed or Scentless Mayweed or Pineapple Mayweed?

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





  • ObsessedPlantswomanObsessedPlantswoman Posts: 69
    @Dovefromabove are the wilder ones worth keeping?
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I'd veer towards pineapple weed.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    ObsessedPlantswoman said:
    @Dovefromabove are the wilder ones worth keeping?
    I wouldn’t, unless I’d got a ‘really wild’ area  … and I’m usually pretty accepting of wild flowers in my garden. 

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





  • SueAtooSueAtoo Posts: 380
    Pearlwort. Will spread.
    East Dorset, new (to me) rather neglected garden.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    You have decided to call it a "weed".  By your definition itis in the wrong place.  It must go.
     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."
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    My vote goes for Matricaria discoidea.....common namees include  pineappleweed, wild chamomile, disc mayweed, and rayless mayweed.

    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think it is pineapple weed give it a sniff.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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