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My 82 Year Old Mums, Garden Weeds

topovzmonkeyX0LiP12ktopovzmonkeyX0LiP12k Posts: 4
edited July 2023 in Problem solving
Hello. Can anyone identify this rotter please. My mum's house was a Farmers field 30 years ago and her hedge was the field dividing boundary. The lawn is a swarm on this weed, and I can't get rid of it. Any help identifying it, would be very much appreciated.
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The small one could be Fat Hen


    Billericay - Essex

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Yes I agree it is a dock, a difficult weed to deal with, seed can remain in the soil undisturbed for 50 years.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • topovzmonkeyX0LiP12ktopovzmonkeyX0LiP12k Posts: 4
    Ohhhh, thanks very much!
    I owe you a pint :)
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I must say I appreciate how the photo is arranged like a herbarium specimen. It looks like one of the sorrels (dock family). I think I can see basal lobes on the leaves but you might have to consult a field guide on a live plant. https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/sheeps-sorrel
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @topovzmonkeyX0LiP12k I wish it were better news. I have just moved and I suspect there are some equally pernicious weeds!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Regular mowing is the best answer.  The other pernicious weeds are also meadow flowers.
     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."
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited July 2023
    My favourite pernicious weed is Hedge Bindweed the flowers are beautiful in their simplicity.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I agree with @wild edges and the others re one of the docks/sorrels, and it's certainly harder if your 'grass' is next to a field and was also formerly a field, as it easily seeds in from the surroundings, but it can be kept under control with regular mowing. It takes a bit of time and perseverance though. Been there.
    We have it everywhere around here in the verges and lanes, and there's lots of farmland close by, but most gardens are fine as the mowing keeps it at bay. 

    Perhaps you can offer to do the mowing for your mum @topovzmonkeyX0LiP12k ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • topovzmonkeyX0LiP12ktopovzmonkeyX0LiP12k Posts: 4
    Don't worry Fairygirl, believe me I do! And buy her copious amounts of wine and jigsaws and clean and maintain her house, car, and numerous computer gadgets type bizzle, that she constantly uses with no idea what is going on! Alexa wakes me up at 4am every day, telling me what's going on in the Cricket in Sri Lanka. The weed issue is one of the lesser problems.
  • topovzmonkeyX0LiP12ktopovzmonkeyX0LiP12k Posts: 4
    Wild Edges, I didn't arrange the photographic composition of the weeds, I just popped them on a flatbed scanner. However, it just so happens that I am a Professional Photographer, so I guess my aesthetic resonance filters through everything I aim to visualize, in order to communicate in a clearly respectful, provision of information.
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