The fumitory is an annual, take some out before it seeds if you don't want too much. I don't think it would become a problem
The frilly one is a plantain, Plantago lanceolata. I think that's known as ribwort which is what MMeerkat suggested. That has more potential for taking over than fumitory.
Yes please, I'd love some of the burnet seeds and I'll try and look after it better than last time
I have more than enough of the plantain thank you. That's an example of how things behave under different regimes. There was some in our meadow. Then OH mowed a strip very close to use as a runway for a model plane. This was years ago and you can still see the plantain runway.
Going to be pedantic again, Salad Burnet is now Poterium sanguisorba.
Ffb, I agree that the Ribwort Plantain is very attractive. It's also one of the most common wildflowers, have a look when you're out and about. The Hoary Plantain, Plantago media, has a really lovely flower, but it only grows on limestone.
That's OK Jim, we can go back to cowslips any time
I've just spotted another hybrid in the meadow. An OK one though, not one of those enormous ones I get sometimes or the dirty pink primroses. Just a slightly oversized P.veris looking one
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Thanks Nutcutlet - I'll get seeds for you from the salad burnet as soon as
I think they're ready. In picture No. 2 it's the ones in front of the corn marigold.
Little velvety brown cones surrounded at the base by pretty tiny little frilly (flowers?)!! They have very sturdy long, thin, dark green leaves.
They are really different - I love them but don't know what they are! As for No 3 -
Will this go rampant or can I control it quite well? I do like it and can get you
some of this too when it seeds it you want.
You got there before me Nut - Keble Martin agrees with you - Sanguisorba minor.
That looks like a good native wildflower mix
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you Dove and Meercat - I need all the help I can get as things
keep popping up and I haven't a clue what they are. Lovely to be back
on the forum after a long absence! I'm really sorry about the photos -
I'm rubbish at photography , but will try to do better next time!
The fumitory is an annual, take some out before it seeds if you don't want too much. I don't think it would become a problem
The frilly one is a plantain, Plantago lanceolata. I think that's known as ribwort which is what MMeerkat suggested. That has more potential for taking over than fumitory.
Yes please, I'd love some of the burnet seeds and I'll try and look after it better than last time
I have more than enough of the plantain thank you. That's an example of how things behave under different regimes. There was some in our meadow. Then OH mowed a strip very close to use as a runway for a model plane. This was years ago and you can still see the plantain runway.
We've rather hijacked the cowslip thread. Sorry
In the sticks near Peterborough
Going to be pedantic again, Salad Burnet is now Poterium sanguisorba.
Ffb, I agree that the Ribwort Plantain is very attractive. It's also one of the most common wildflowers, have a look when you're out and about. The Hoary Plantain, Plantago media, has a really lovely flower, but it only grows on limestone.
Pedantic is OK landgirl.There was a time when I used to remember thinks like that
In the sticks near Peterborough
Oh, the thread has been hijacked. Why do people do this. get your own thread.
That's OK Jim, we can go back to cowslips any time
I've just spotted another hybrid in the meadow. An OK one though, not one of those enormous ones I get sometimes or the dirty pink primroses. Just a slightly oversized P.veris looking one
In the sticks near Peterborough
and P. farinosa
which are really tiny so it's possible they could be one parent. Who knows? Here it is, not a great photo but the only one I could find.
I have Bardfield Oxlips, they basically grow in a ditch bank. Not very common.