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Could you identify these 2 plants/weeds for me please?

Pink678Pink678 Posts: 498
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I am weeding and have found two unidentified plants.
I don't know if they are weeds, or plants to keep - please could you identify them for me?
One has leaves with serrated edges, and the other has smooth flat oblong-shaped leaves.
Any help much appreciated.





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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    The first one looks like avens to me.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes the first looks like wood avens … aka Geum urbanum.  A bit of a PITA in this garden as it’s infiltrated my other prettier geum varieties. 

    The others look like foxglove seedlings. 

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





  • Pink678Pink678 Posts: 498
    edited July 2023
    Thank you both so much.
    So I would get rid of the wood avens then.
    For the possible foxgloves, there is a patch where they are densely packed as in the last photo. Foxgloves might be quite nice so maybe I should keep them.
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Yes I would .
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Pink678 said:
    Thank you both so much.

    For the possible foxgloves, there is a patch where they are densely packed as in the last photo. Foxgloves might be quite nice so maybe I should keep them.
    But thin them out a bit so they can develop properly, they transplant quite well


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2023
    nutcutlet said:
    Pink678 said:
    Thank you both so much.

    For the possible foxgloves, there is a patch where they are densely packed as in the last photo. Foxgloves might be quite nice so maybe I should keep them.
    But thin them out a bit so they can develop properly, they transplant quite well
    I agree with Nutcutlet.., thin them out and transplant some now-ish into damp but we’ll-drained soil and they’ll romp away and give you so much beauty next year. 😊 

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





  • Pink678Pink678 Posts: 498
    edited July 2023
    That sounds like a good idea, I was wondering if I could thin them. Good to know they transplant well, I have never done that before. I'll be gentle with the roots and maybe try to take a little soil out too.
    I have a very shaded flowerbed that needs something in it and it has damp/well drained soil, so I hope the thinned ones would be good there. It's next to the place where they started, which has similar conditions.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're fairly tough, so don't worry too much. I just teased some very small ones out yesterday from the gravel in between some paving. Potted them up - a few in each pot, and they're fine, They're only around an inch or two in size at most.
    Much easier at the size yours are, especially when they're in soil!   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Pink678Pink678 Posts: 498
    Excellent, and how nice to rescue some, must be very satisfying :)
  • Pink678Pink678 Posts: 498
    This might be a very obvious question, but how far apart should I plant the thinned ones?
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