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Geranium?

KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
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This Geranium (?) has popped up in various parts of our garden, where I didn't plant any Geraniums. I don't recognise it's leaf pattern, compared to all of the hybrids we currently have. It is also sprouting from runners, in exactly the same way as a Strawberry, and for a brief moment I thought perhaps it was a Strawberry. It has very hairy stems.

Does anyone recognise it, and is it a Geranium?

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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    Creeping buttercup?
  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    I agree, if it’s sprouting runners my money is on creeping buttercup. I have loads in my garden.

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think so too.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    Thank you @ceres and @Emptyheadtime  I knew something was funny about it, especially the runners. We've never had that particular weed/wild flower in our garden before, which is what threw me.

    I had even potted up a few of them! Now which of us hasn't potted up and nurtured some weeds before.....(usually Ash seedlings in my case).

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I've no idea what you're talking about.
    I have never, not once, potted up a buttercup thinking it was aquilegia. 😳
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited August 2023
    @KeenOnGreen If a weed is new to you I can completely understand the confusion. 

    There was a mix up only a few days ago between an aquilega and oxalis corniculata.
    When I went to work in a garden for the first time I needed to be aware of any weeds that were new to me.
     

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Me too, @GardenerSuze.  Early in my career as a gardener I nurtured a plant with very attractive leaves in a customer's garden, only to discover (fortunately before the customer noticed it) that it was ragwort...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    Goat willow and willow herb are often carefully nurtured for months in pots across the nation, no doubt.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Liriodendron A plantswoman and garden friend opened her garden with a record 600 plus visitors.
    After they had left she stood silently and looked across the garden to see this huge sow thistle. 
    OK she would be the first to say she had missed it and if the visitors had noticed it they were too polite to say anything. She told me afterwards and we had a good giggle!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    My OH weeded out my lupin seedlings. In my first garden at my first house. They were my first seedlings and he was my first husband. 
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