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Is this plant a goodie or a baddie?

M0rganaM0rgana Posts: 47
in Problem solving
A plant is growing in my garden where I put poppy seeds (I think!). Is it the poppies or is it a weed? Worried I should be removing it before it takes over! 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023
    Look like poppies to me … the sort often known as opium poppies. 

    There’s a sort of resemblance to milk thistle leaves, but if  you sowed poppy seeds I’d go with that.   Of course, if they begin to produce yellow thistle type flowers you can yank them out before they set seed. 

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Poppies, well done, they’ll put on a lovely show later.  Can’t wait for mine to come out,  I had some black ones,  I’m hoping the seeds will follow. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    They are the poppies you sowed .
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