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Plant to ID please

Hi

At some point I will collate all the plants I need to ID into one post, but for now here's one that I'm fairly sure is a weed (edged in red in the pic), but I don't quite have the confidence to pull it out without checking. There is quite a bit of it around the garden, but it does look almost like it has been put in big clumps, so it might just be something I should keep.
All thoughts welcome, thanks. And yes, at some point I will also deadhead that rhododendron!


No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

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  • Is it yellow loosestrife?

    I'd wait for the flowers to help with an ID before being more decisive on what to do with it.

    Never bother with dead heading rhododendron here as I find the flowers that are past their best are not very noticeable after a short time anyway.

    Happy gardening!

  • Doesn't look like my loosestrife.
    Southampton 
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    I have a low growing Oenothera which looks very similar. Not sure which species it is though. 
    East Anglia
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Not loosestrife, lysimachia punctata, leaves are too long and narrow.

    Looks a bit like a willowherb, which is a weed, but I can't be sure. If it is, then it seeds itself like mad.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I second willowherb, I've got loads that looks like that!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I third it😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fourthed! 

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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    edited June 2023
    By the way, @Stephanie newish gardener it is easier for us to identify plants individually than have lots in one post, which can be muddling. 2 or 3 at most.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Flippin' willowherb, of course! Pesky stuff has a few different guises and I've been pulling lots of the smaller stuff out and not properly seeing the gigantic version because it sits at the same height as much of a big established border. Will pull it out asap!

    In my new garden there are lots of plants I'm not sure about, and I wondered whether it would be easiest to start one thread and post a few as I find them, rather than doing lots and lots of new threads. I do need to change my username as I'm much less of a newish gardener now (even tho I failed to ID willowherb - d'oh!) But equally I need to ID these plants before too long.
    My rationale on doing one thread with a few separately posted pics is that it keeps it all in one place for me, but I can see it might be a bit confusing if I put too many pics up at once. I kind of took the idea from the thread that Simone in Wiltshire is doing, and call it something like discovering my new garden.
    Happy to take advice from the collective. 
    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

  • Question asked in hindsight......is there the remotest chance that these could be phlox paniculata?
    While perusing a plant book I came across phlox and remembered that there is some in the bed where the above pic was taken.
    We have been systematically pulling up loads of the above plant but now I'm wondering if I've been pulling up phlox. The two look very similar in photos....

    I am inclined to trust the wisdom of the group, but OH now wants to leave the plants in question and see what happens. A fair strategy, so long as we're here when they flower and before they go to seed.....
    The roots of some of these things have been like small parsnips, which was a bit unexpected! 
    Feeling a bit uncertain now......
    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

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