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daisymdaisym Posts: 108
I found this growing today between a rose and a dahlia. It is about 70cm and looks a fine healthy plant. I am pretty sure it is self-seeded. I left it there because I thought it was another dahlia but it is now obviously not. Hope someone can identify it. Many thanks.Sorry it has copied twice - don't know how to delete.
East Dunbartonshire
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Raspberry or similar possibly?
    Tricky without seeing the whole plant

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • daisymdaisym Posts: 108
    Thanks. I'll go and take another photo.
    East Dunbartonshire
  • daisymdaisym Posts: 108
    Hope that helps @Pete.8
    East Dunbartonshire
  • daisymdaisym Posts: 108
    Google lens is saying 'red raspberry' Plantnet is saying 'European red raspberry'
    Thank you @Pete.8!
    I have blueberry and blackberry bushes in the back garden. When would be suitable to move this plant from the front where it is to join the others? I don't know where it came from as none of my neighbours are gardeners. Could it be a wild raspberry?
    East Dunbartonshire
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    you can move it anytime when it's dormant - so Nov-Feb.
    It may be a wild raspberry - there are lots at the field where I walk with my dog - they're nothing special tbh tho. Quite small and not much flavour.
    But worth seeing what happens next year.
    It should set berries on the existing cane by June/July

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Blackbirds eat raspberries and spread the seeds around, same with blackberries.
  • daisymdaisym Posts: 108
    Ok that's great thanks. I will wait a while and move it sometime from November.
    My first time of growing fruit bushes and I know little about it. The blueberry was planted late spring and I have had 5 lovely blueberries from it. Then a friend gave me a blackberry bush which they had grown from their own bush. It has one beautiful long cane at the moment so hopefully there will be fruit later. Now it seems I have acquired a raspberry bush!
    Thanks for your help @Pete.8
    East Dunbartonshire
  • daisymdaisym Posts: 108
    There is a pair of blackbirds which nest close by every year. I haven't seen any young this year but it has been really very wet all summer. @fidgetbones Perhaps they were responsible!
    East Dunbartonshire
  • I had raspberries appear in the front garden, hidden at first by shrubs. Getting them out from the roots was a bit worrying but all OK.
    Southampton 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I can’t keep on top of the wild raspberries, they’re everywhere,  horrible prickly stalks. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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