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Can anyone identify these?
Hopefully some of you experts might be able to help! Not the easiest without actual flowers but fingers crossed.
I have previously planted this bed with: Calendula officinalis nana 'Citrus Cocktail, Cornflower 'Classic Fantastic' and 'Ladybird' Poppies, but since I planted them a variety of different plants are growing and I don't know what's what. My mum's advice is to just let it grow and see what looks nice, but I'm just intrigued as to if anything I planted is actually growing or if I've just had a lot of rogue seeds coming in.
Primarily hoping that they aren't just a big bunch of common weeds.
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The second one is Dog's Mercury, definitely a weed in a garden. Not sure about the first, except that it isn't anything that you planted!
Damn. That one's come from nowhere to take over quite a large chunk of the flower bed.
The first one looks like foxglove seedlings perhaps?
There are several things in the first one. . The main one might be one of the comphreys. Not the big one, officinalis. I think it's something in that family. There are seedlings of other things around and through it
In the sticks near Peterborough
They look rough textured to me Edd, I'm thinking Boraginaceae.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think those larger leaves in the first picture have a slightly downy feel on the underside if that helps, like the very short hair on a dog's ear.
So in general nothing that I planted. I think I might just have to give up - I can't strip it all back to bare soil again, as long as I can clear these plants away from the couple of strawberry/chilli/tomato plants I've got growing it might just be easier to see if any of the flowers look nice at least.
That's only Symphytum officinale Edd. Some are very small
Perhaps a few more photos from different angles would help.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I agree, the first is foxglove seedlings - I have hundreds in with my geraniums and I'll leave them as the bumblebees love the flowers.
..... having now read the subsequent blogs, maybe not! Could be comfrey - excellent for fertiliser-making, but smelly.